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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 did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1945.

2. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Dido Milroy.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Janet Malcolm.

3. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.
(a) The postal service.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) The Hughes family.
(d) The Sylvia Plath myth.

4. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?
(a) Harold Stevenson.
(b) Richard Stevenson.
(c) Charles Stevenson.
(d) Robert Stevenson.

5. When was Anne Stevenson born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?

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

3. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.

4. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?

5. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.

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