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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. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?
(a) Frances McCullough.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Anne Stevenson's.

2. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Jacqueline Rose.
(c) Aurelia Plath.
(d) Janet Malcolm.

3. From 1956 to 1966, A. Alvarez was the poetry editor and critic for what publication?
(a) The Reporter.
(b) The Insider.
(c) The Analyst.
(d) The Observer.

4. What reprinting of letters, in which Sylvia wrote to her mother and which displayed her nice daughter side, was published by Plath's mother?
(a) Letters Home.
(b) Love, Sylvia.
(c) A Daughter Far Away.
(d) A Loving Correspondence.

5. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Personal relationships.
(b) Prejudices.
(c) Religion.
(d) False selves.

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. Janet Malcolm met with Olwyn Hughes in February of what year in Part One: Chapter VI?

3. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?

4. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?

5. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?

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