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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapter VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did A. Alvarez write on the subject of divorce?
(a) Life After Marriage.
(b) Day of Atonement.
(c) Beyond All This Fiddle.
(d) Where Did It All Go Right?

2. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Ronald Hayman.

3. What university did Sylvia Plath attend in England?
(a) Exeter University.
(b) Oxford University.
(c) Rhodes University.
(d) Cambridge University.

4. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?
(a) Anne Stevenson's.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) Frances McCullough.
(d) A. Alvarez.

5. In their interview in Part Two: Chapter I, Anne Stevenson told Malcolm of the hurt she felt when a critic had accused her of ___________.
(a) Secretly hating Plath.
(b) Being envious of Plath's talent.
(c) Leaving out details.
(d) Telling lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?

2. Where did Janet Malcolm travel to meet with Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter I?

3. Olwyn Hughes gave Anne Stevenson whose account that was unflattering to Sylvia to review in Part Two: Chapter I?

4. A. Alvarez ended his interview with Malcolm in Part Two: Chapter VII by concluding that Ted could never accept the fact that Sylvia's life and death was ________ and he could do nothing to change that.

5. What did Ted Hughes called Alvarez' assertion that there was a professional jealousy between him and Sylvia?

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