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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters IV, V and VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long had Anne Stevenson worked on her biography of Sylvia Plath before it was published?
(a) Two years.
(b) Four years.
(c) One year.
(d) Five years.

2. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?
(a) Bread and milk.
(b) Their backpacks.
(c) Milk and cookies.
(d) A note.

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

4. How many years of hell did Ted Hughes go through after Sylvia's death, according to Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter IV?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

5. What university did Sylvia Plath attend in England?
(a) Oxford University.
(b) Rhodes University.
(c) Cambridge University.
(d) Exeter University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem from Ariel is written in nine 7-line stanzas, totaling sixty-three lines, and follows no rhyme scheme?

2. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?

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

4. When was Janet Malcolm born?

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

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