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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Aurelia Plath.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Jacqueline Rose.
(d) Janet Malcolm.

2. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Ronald Hayman.

3. Immediately after Sylvia's suicide, whom did Elizabeth Sigmund blame?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Clarissa Roche.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Olwyn Hughes.

4. To assuage Ted's hurt artistic side, A. Alvarez wrote in a letter that he felt Ted and Sylvia were ______________.
(a) Beautiful souls.
(b) The best poets of their generation.
(c) The greatest love story of all time.
(d) True intellectuals.

5. Where was A. Alvarez born?
(a) Mexico.
(b) England.
(c) Spain.
(d) El Salvador.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Assia Wevill die?

2. Almost every writer, Anne Stevenson concluded, has some form of depression which stems from the internal nagging that the writer was not _____________.

3. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?

4. Where did Janet Malcolm travel to meet with Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter I?

5. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?

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