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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 A. Alvarez born?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1922.

2. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?
(a) University of Montana.
(b) University of Illinois.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) University of Idaho.

3. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?
(a) Additional material.
(b) Love letters.
(c) The original manuscript.
(d) A lost journal.

4. When was Sylvia Plath born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1924.

5. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?
(a) Bread and milk.
(b) A note.
(c) Their backpacks.
(d) Milk and cookies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?

2. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.

3. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?

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

5. What book by A. Alvarez about suicide gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath?

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