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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?
(a) A. Alvarez's.
(b) Janet Malcolm's.
(c) Anne Stevenson's.
(d) Ted Hughes'.

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

3. What was the name of the man Sylvia was involved with when she met Ted Hughes?
(a) Ralph Brighton.
(b) Abraham Thompson.
(c) Richard Sassoon.
(d) David Neighbors.

4. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?
(a) Leonard Cohen.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Charles Bukowski.
(d) W. B. Yeats.

5. What poem from Ariel is written in nine 7-line stanzas, totaling sixty-three lines, and follows no rhyme scheme?
(a) Medusa.
(b) Morning Song.
(c) Tulips.
(d) The Bee Meeting.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?

2. How many children did Assia Wevill have with Ted Hughes?

3. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?

4. When was Anne Stevenson's book Correspondences: A Family History in Letters published?

5. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?

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