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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. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.
(a) To be famous.
(b) To get divorced.
(c) To kill herself.
(d) To write a best seller.

2. The author writes that biographers love letters since they are the fossils of ___________.
(a) Thought.
(b) Influence.
(c) Time.
(d) Emotions.

3. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) Anne Stevenson's.
(b) Janet Malcolm's.
(c) A. Alvarez's.
(d) Ronald Hayman's.

4. Anne Stevenson tried to defend herself in her speech in Part Two: Chapter I by explaining that some of her work was tainted by the controlling hands of whom?
(a) Olwyn Hughes.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Clarissa Roche.

5. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?
(a) Prague.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Munich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward the end of her life, according to Alvarez, Sylvia Plath developed a problem with ___________.

2. When did Assia Wevill die?

3. When did Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry?

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

5. Sylvia Plath met Ted Hughes during her last year at which school?

(see the answer key)

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