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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. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Arrogance.

2. How many pages did the manuscript which Anne Stevenson wrote for Penguin Books contain?
(a) 150 pages.
(b) 100 pages.
(c) 50 pages.
(d) 75 pages.

3. When was Ronald Hayman born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1934.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.

2. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?

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

4. A. Alvarez claimed to have thought that Bitter Fame was an example of ___________.

5. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?

(see the answer key)

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