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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters V and VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?
(a) Reviews of the book being published.
(b) Completion of the manuscript.
(c) The publishing of the book.
(d) Choosing a cover for the book.

2. When was A. Alvarez born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1919.

3. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?
(a) Milk and cookies.
(b) Bread and milk.
(c) Their backpacks.
(d) A note.

4. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?
(a) She overdosed.
(b) She shot herself.
(c) She hung herself.
(d) She gassed herself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.

2. What book by A. Alvarez about suicide gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath?

3. Who was the consulting editor on The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

4. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

5. What is the term used for a novel describing real life, behind a façade of fiction?

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