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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. In Part Two: Chapter IV, Malcolm hadn't been able to interview Alvarez or Ted because who basically disallowed it?
(a) Frances McCullough.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Clarissa Roche.
(d) Olwyn Hughes.

2. Anne Stevenson claimed that in her early days in England she reached for a drink much as Sylvia reached for ___________.
(a) Suicide.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Fame.
(d) Rescue.

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?
(a) Personal relationships.
(b) Prejudices.
(c) Religion.
(d) False selves.

4. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Assia Wevill die?

2. After she and Ted separated, Sylvia chose to stay in England because __________ was more accepted there.

3. How old was Ted Hughes when Sylvia Plath died?

4. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?

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

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