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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1945.

2. To assuage Ted's hurt artistic side, A. Alvarez wrote in a letter that he felt Ted and Sylvia were ______________.
(a) The best poets of their generation.
(b) True intellectuals.
(c) Beautiful souls.
(d) The greatest love story of all time.

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

4. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?
(a) University of Illinois.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) University of Montana.
(d) University of Idaho.

5. In the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes commented how in the last several years of her life, Sylvia had found ______________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Her true voice as a poet.
(c) The perfect editor.
(d) Her lost journals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."

2. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.

3. In a letter to Anne Stevenson, Ted defended his stance of publicly disassociating himself from ________.

4. When was The Bell Jar first published?

5. When was Ronald Hayman born?

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