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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. Who witnessed Sylvia weeping over Ted's infidelity, claiming that she had given her whole heart to Ted and couldn't get it back?
(a) Clarissa Roche.
(b) Olwyn Hughes.
(c) Aurelia Plath.
(d) Elizabeth Sigmund.

2. What biography mentioned a cloth beneath Sylvia's head as she inhaled the gas fumes and a testimonial statement by her doctor that she had been in a dire mental condition?
(a) Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness: A Biography.
(b) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.
(c) The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath.
(d) Bitter Fame.

3. The woman who had found the flat for the Hughes described in in Part One: Chapter VII recalled how Sylvia eschewed her suggestion to buy _____________.
(a) A phonograph.
(b) A car.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) Used appliances or furniture.

4. Malcolm was surprised that Anne Stevenson confessed to having had a problem with what addiction?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Men.
(d) Drug addiction.

5. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.
(a) Played Russian roulette.
(b) Almost drove off the road.
(c) Cut her wrist.
(d) Attempted to hang herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?

2. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?

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

4. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?

5. When was Ronald Hayman born?

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