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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 Plath met Ted Hughes during her last year at which school?
(a) Brown University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Smith College.
(d) Dartmouth College.

2. Sylvia wrote in her journal that the fight at the end of the school year had caused her to lose faith in Ted. She asked why the wife was the last to see the husband's ___________.
(a) "Wounds."
(b) "Ulcer."
(c) "Hemorrhoid."
(d) "Warts."

3. When was the publication date of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1983.

4. Who witnessed Sylvia weeping over Ted's infidelity, claiming that she had given her whole heart to Ted and couldn't get it back?
(a) Aurelia Plath.
(b) Clarissa Roche.
(c) Olwyn Hughes.
(d) Elizabeth Sigmund.

5. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1981.

Short Answer Questions

1. A. Alvarez claimed that Olwyn and Ted Hughes probably chose Anne Stevenson to write a biography on Sylvia because they could ______________.

2. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?

3. Sylvia Plath's extremism and ________ were things that Anne Stevenson deplored.

4. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?

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

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