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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. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.
(a) To write a best seller.
(b) To kill herself.
(c) To get divorced.
(d) To be famous.

2. When was Jacqueline Rose's biography of Sylvia Plath published?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1988.

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

4. 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) A. Alvarez.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Olwyn Hughes.

5. In Part Two: Chapters VIII, Elizabeth Sigmund mentioned that Ted and Carol no longer speak to whom?
(a) Aurelia Plath.
(b) Olwyn Hughes.
(c) Clarissa Roche.
(d) A. Alvarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Anne Stevenson write to Olwyn about never contacting her again?

2. Where did Malcolm interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?

3. When was Anne Stevenson born?

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

5. Toward the end of her life, according to Alvarez, Sylvia Plath developed a problem with ___________.

(see the answer key)

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