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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 words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?
(a) 1,800.
(b) 3,700.
(c) 11,000.
(d) 15,000.

2. What biography mentioned a cloth beneath Sylvia's head as she inhaled the gas fumes and a testimonial statement by her doctor that she had been in a dire mental condition?
(a) Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness: A Biography.
(b) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.
(c) The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath.
(d) Bitter Fame.

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

4. When was Anne Stevenson born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1933.

5. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?
(a) She gassed herself.
(b) She overdosed.
(c) She hung herself.
(d) She shot herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?

2. Where was Sylvia Plath born?

3. What poems did Plath write for the most part in the two months after Ted had left Devon?

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

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

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