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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. Sylvia wrote in her journals that she was certain she had the ability to commit suicide, murder a woman, and ____________.
(a) Strangle a cat.
(b) Wrestle a lion.
(c) Wound a man.
(d) Outsmart a fox.

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) Beautiful souls.
(c) The greatest love story of all time.
(d) True intellectuals.

3. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) The Sylvia Plath myth.
(c) The postal service.
(d) The Hughes family.

4. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) Ronald Hayman's.
(b) A. Alvarez's.
(c) Janet Malcolm's.
(d) Anne Stevenson's.

5. How long had Anne Stevenson worked on her biography of Sylvia Plath before it was published?
(a) Four years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Malcolm feel like upon arriving at Sylvia's former home in Part Two: Chapter IX?

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

4. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?

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?

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