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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. When was the book The Colossus and Other Poems first published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1950.

2. When was The Bell Jar first published?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1963.

3. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?
(a) Robert Stevenson.
(b) Charles Stevenson.
(c) Harold Stevenson.
(d) Richard Stevenson.

4. Toward the end of her life, according to Alvarez, Sylvia Plath developed a problem with ___________.
(a) Hygiene.
(b) Fear.
(c) Animals.
(d) Schizophrenia.

5. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Ronald Hayman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?

2. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?

3. Where was A. Alvarez born?

4. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?

5. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

(see the answer key)

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