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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1981.

2. Ted Hughes was outraged by Rose's inference that Plath questioned her sexual identity in what work?
(a) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.
(b) Rabbit Catcher.
(c) The Savage God.
(d) Letters Home.

3. What did Ted Hughes called Alvarez' assertion that there was a professional jealousy between him and Sylvia?
(a) Partially true.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Unfounded.
(d) Accurate.

4. In a letter to her former lover at the end of their relationship, Sylvia told him, "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting __________."
(a) Death.
(b) Something.
(c) One thing.
(d) Nothing.

5. When was Anne Stevenson's book Correspondences: A Family History in Letters published?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1968.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ted seen as in Sylvia's life, according to her therapist?

2. The Bell Jar is based in part on Plath's own life and, in particular, her suicide attempt in what year?

3. What editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath was criticized for her own omission of some works?

4. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."

5. Ted felt that Sylvia's work lacked what element?

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