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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. Alvarez responded to Ted Hughes in letters that his work was honest and not one of _____________.
(a) Fiction.
(b) Sensationalism.
(c) Lies.
(d) Evil motivation.

2. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?
(a) Dr. Hollingsworth.
(b) Dr. Hefner.
(c) Dr. Horder.
(d) Dr. Holiday.

3. Where did Janet Malcolm travel to meet with Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter I?
(a) Beaconsfield, England.
(b) Shirebrook, England.
(c) Helmsley, England.
(d) Durham, England.

4. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?
(a) Leonard Cohen.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Charles Bukowski.
(d) W. B. Yeats.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ted Hughes die?

2. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?

3. Janet Malcolm met with Olwyn Hughes in February of what year in Part One: Chapter VI?

4. In her journals, Sylvia demonstrated her violent nature when she characterized her rude behavior in a confrontation she had with young girls doing what in a public park while she was doing the same thing?

5. Sylvia saw a therapist who felt that her relationship with whom was central to her problems?

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