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

2. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, it left many thinking that the words and spirit of Sylvia had been ___________.
(a) Lies.
(b) Remembered.
(c) Repressed.
(d) Immortalized.

3. A. Alvarez claimed to have thought that Bitter Fame was an example of ___________.
(a) "Fiction."
(b) "Psychodrama."
(c) "Writers block."
(d) "Female bitchiness."

4. Who currently lived at the home Malcolm detoured past on her way to interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Olwyn Hughes.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Ted Hughes.

5. Where was A. Alvarez born?
(a) Spain.
(b) England.
(c) El Salvador.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?

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

3. What game had Elizabeth Sigmund played with Olwyn Hughes on a few occasions?

4. When was Ronald Hayman born?

5. 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?

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