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

2. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Generosity.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Narcissism.

3. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Dido Milroy.
(c) Olwyn Hughes .
(d) Frances McCullough.

4. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?
(a) Literature Weekly.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The New York Review of Books.
(d) The New York Times.

5. When did Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1956.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.

2. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?

3. When was the publication date of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

4. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?

5. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?

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