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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. What poems did Plath write for the most part in the two months after Ted had left Devon?
(a) Winter Trees.
(b) Ariel.
(c) Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices.
(d) The Colossus and Other Poems.

2. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Narcissism.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Kindness.

3. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.
(a) A trophy wife.
(b) A dowdy little housewife.
(c) The perfect woman.
(d) A literary genious.

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

5. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.
(a) To kill herself.
(b) To write a best seller.
(c) To get divorced.
(d) To be famous.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?

2. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?

3. Who witnessed Sylvia weeping over Ted's infidelity, claiming that she had given her whole heart to Ted and couldn't get it back?

4. When was The Bell Jar first published?

5. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?

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