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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Sylvia Plath born?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1929.

2. How long had Anne Stevenson worked on her biography of Sylvia Plath before it was published?
(a) One year.
(b) Four years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five years.

3. Who currently lived at the home Malcolm detoured past on her way to interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Olwyn Hughes.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Ted Hughes.

4. Almost every writer, Anne Stevenson concluded, has some form of depression which stems from the internal nagging that the writer was not _____________.
(a) Engaging the reader.
(b) Telling the truth.
(c) Pleasing their editor.
(d) Living up to their potential.

5. In what year had a literary critic declared that what stood out about Plath's works was that Plath's "not nice" quality was what set her apart from her contemporaries?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1963.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?

2. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?

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

4. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?

5. The woman who had found the flat for the Hughes described in in Part One: Chapter VII recalled how Sylvia eschewed her suggestion to buy _____________.

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