The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Quiz

Janet Malcolm

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

Part One: Chapter I

Part One: Chapter II

Part One: Chapter III

Part One: Chapter IV

Part One: Chapters V and VI

Part One: Chapters VII and VIII

Part Two: Chapter I

Part Two: Chapter II

Part Two: Chapter III

Part Two: Chapters IV, V and VI

Part Two: Chapter VII

Part Two: Chapters VIII and IX

Part Three: Chapters I and II

Part Three: Chapters III, IV and V

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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Quiz

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Quiz

The author writes that biographers love letters since they are the fossils of ___________. (from Part Two: Chapters IV, V and VI)

How many years of hell did Ted Hughes go through after Sylvia's death, according to Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter IV? (from Part Two: Chapters IV, V and VI)

The woman who had found the flat for the Hughes described in in Part One: Chapter VII recalled how Sylvia eschewed her suggestion to buy _____________. (from Part One: Chapters VII and VIII)

In her book, Jacqueline Rose took to task what work as a cause célèbre that was concocted by the Hughes? (from Part Three: Chapters III, IV and V)

Who witnessed Sylvia weeping over Ted's infidelity, claiming that she had given her whole heart to Ted and couldn't get it back? (from Part One: Chapters VII and VIII)