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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. The Bell Jar is based in part on Plath's own life and, in particular, her suicide attempt in what year?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1949.

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

3. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Linda Wagner-Martin.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

4. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Time Magazine.
(d) The New Yorker.

5. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?
(a) Additional material.
(b) A lost journal.
(c) Love letters.
(d) The original manuscript.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sylvia Plath born?

2. In 1952, William Stanley Merwin's first book of poetry was published under what title?

3. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?

4. When was A. Alvarez born?

5. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?

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