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

2. In Part Three: Chapter IV, Malcolm had another run-in with Olwyn, who felt she took Sylvia's side when a former boyfriend she interviewed felt Sylvia had __________.
(a) Psychological issues.
(b) Suicidal thoughts.
(c) Excessive emotion.
(d) Borderline personality.

3. The man whom Sylvia Plath was dating when she met Ted Hughes did not return her _____________.
(a) Mistrust of humanity.
(b) Passion.
(c) Love of art.
(d) Love of literature.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the novel The Bell Jar first published under Sylvia Plath's name?

2. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?

3. What biography mentioned a cloth beneath Sylvia's head as she inhaled the gas fumes and a testimonial statement by her doctor that she had been in a dire mental condition?

4. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?

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

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