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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Sylvia Plath born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1925.

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

3. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were separated by the fall of what year?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1962.

4. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?
(a) Tooth decay.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Lack of exercise.
(d) Promiscuity.

5. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1985.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Bitter Fame published?

2. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?

3. Who edited The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

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

5. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?

(see the answer key)

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