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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. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Narcissism.
(d) Arrogance.

2. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?
(a) 1920's.
(b) 1930's.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1940's.

3. Anne Stevenson began a lecture describing how her and Sylvia's background as well as ideology were similar, and they had both married _________.
(a) Hastily.
(b) Englishmen.
(c) Incorrectly.
(d) Adulterers.

4. There was always a close association between Sylvia's work and what?
(a) Her love of Greek literature.
(b) Her personal life.
(c) Her spirituality.
(d) Her love of Shakespeare.

5. Toward the end of her life, according to Alvarez, Sylvia Plath developed a problem with ___________.
(a) Fear.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Hygiene.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?

2. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?

3. When did Ted Hughes die?

4. What poem written by Sylvia Plath, originally collected in the posthumously published volume Ariel, describes the speaker's oppression with the use of World War II Nazi Germany allusions and images?

5. When was the publication date of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

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