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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary genre emphasizes the intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and despondence?
(a) Realistic poetry.
(b) Truthful poetry.
(c) Confessional poetry.
(d) Sinful poetry.

2. Anne Stevenson explained in Part Two: Chapter I that she had been commissioned to write a story about Sylvia Plath in a series for Penguin Books called __________.
(a) Women of History.
(b) Fascinating Women.
(c) Lives of Modern Women.
(d) The Women Everybody Should Know.

3. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?
(a) Dido Milroy.
(b) Olwyn Hughes .
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Frances McCullough.

4. Anne Stevenson left her second husband and children to go off with what poet?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Phillip Hobsbaum.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?

2. At what meeting had Anne Stevenson appeared to speak in Part Two: Chapter I?

3. Anne Stevenson began a lecture describing how her and Sylvia's background as well as ideology were similar, and they had both married _________.

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?

5. What university had Sylvia Plath attended?

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