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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters VII and VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?
(a) Zero.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

2. Who edited The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Frances McCullough.
(c) Assia Wevill.
(d) Ted Hughes.

3. The Bell Jar is based in part on Plath's own life and, in particular, her suicide attempt in what year?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1950.

4. What reprinting of letters, in which Sylvia wrote to her mother and which displayed her nice daughter side, was published by Plath's mother?
(a) Love, Sylvia.
(b) A Daughter Far Away.
(c) A Loving Correspondence.
(d) Letters Home.

5. Janet Malcolm met with Olwyn Hughes in February of what year in Part One: Chapter VI?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1987.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?

2. Toward the end of her life, according to Alvarez, Sylvia Plath developed a problem with ___________.

3. When was the novel The Bell Jar first published under Sylvia Plath's name?

4. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?

5. In her youth, Sylvia was known for her American neatness and what color hair?

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