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

2. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?
(a) Frances McCullough.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Janet Malcolm.

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

4. What is the term used for a novel describing real life, behind a façade of fiction?
(a) Biography.
(b) Nonfiction fiction.
(c) Autobiography.
(d) Roman a clef.

5. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.
(a) Almost drove off the road.
(b) Attempted to hang herself.
(c) Played Russian roulette.
(d) Cut her wrist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?

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

3. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?

4. Under what pseudonym was The Bell Jar originally published?

5. When did the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church begin?

(see the answer key)

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