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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. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) Ronald Hayman's.
(b) Janet Malcolm's.
(c) Anne Stevenson's.
(d) A. Alvarez's.

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

3. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1983.

4. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?
(a) Literature Weekly.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The New York Review of Books.
(d) The New York Times.

5. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes avoided blame for what?
(a) Incomplete editing.
(b) The destruction of Plath's journals.
(c) Plath's death.
(d) Plath's unhappiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was A. Alvarez born?

2. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.

3. Sylvia had told her mother about the dismal kitchens and ____________ in England.

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

5. When was Sylvia Plath born?

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