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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. 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.

2. When was Anne Stevenson born?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1922.

3. In Part Two: Chapter II, Ted described the battle Sylvia had to get her short story published in what periodical?
(a) The Ladies' Home Journal.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) Family Circle.
(d) Good Housekeeping.

4. What reprinting of letters, in which Sylvia wrote to her mother and which displayed her nice daughter side, was published by Plath's mother?
(a) A Loving Correspondence.
(b) Letters Home.
(c) A Daughter Far Away.
(d) Love, Sylvia.

5. Olwyn didn't write her own book because she wasn't a writer and, as Ted told her, no one would have ________.
(a) Bought the book.
(b) Understood her language.
(c) Been willing to publish it.
(d) Believed her account.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Ted felt that Sylvia's work lacked what element?

4. What editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath was criticized for her own omission of some works?

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

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