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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. When did Assia Wevill die?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1969.

2. When was The Bell Jar first published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1963.

3. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Zero.

4. Under what pseudonym was The Bell Jar originally published?
(a) Melissa Bouvier.
(b) Victoria Lucas.
(c) Cassandra Owens.
(d) Johanna Mills.

5. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were separated by the fall of what year?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the book The Colossus and Other Poems first published?

2. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?

3. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

4. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?

5. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, it left many thinking that the words and spirit of Sylvia had been ___________.

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