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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters III, IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years of hell did Ted Hughes go through after Sylvia's death, according to Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter IV?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

2. In a letter to her former lover at the end of their relationship, Sylvia told him, "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting __________."
(a) Death.
(b) One thing.
(c) Something.
(d) Nothing.

3. What is the name of the protagonist in The Bell Jar?
(a) Esther Greenwood.
(b) Linda Rollins.
(c) Anne Swanson.
(d) Carol Thompson.

4. Where was Sylvia Plath born?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Maine.

5. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?
(a) Frances McCullough.
(b) Olwyn Hughes .
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Dido Milroy.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the eve of her death, Sylvia Plath insisted on paying for what which she got from Trevor Thomas?

2. When did the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church begin?

3. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.

4. Alvarez responded to Ted Hughes in letters that his work was honest and not one of _____________.

5. When did Assia Wevill die?

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