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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. What book by A. Alvarez about suicide gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath?
(a) Life after Marriage: Scenes from Divorce.
(b) School of Donne.
(c) The Savage God.
(d) Where Did It All Go Right.

2. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1947.

3. The author writes that biographers love letters since they are the fossils of ___________.
(a) Influence.
(b) Time.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Thought.

4. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Personal relationships.
(b) False selves.
(c) Prejudices.
(d) Religion.

5. The editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath defended her cuts as ___________ when publishing such raw material as journal entries?
(a) Standard.
(b) Requested.
(c) Necessary.
(d) Minimal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?

2. In Part Two: Chapter II, Ted described the battle Sylvia had to get her short story published in what periodical?

3. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?

4. What was the title of Ted Hughes' last work?

5. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?

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