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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.
(a) A mystery.
(b) An unjustified murder.
(c) An atrocity.
(d) An abomination.

2. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes avoided blame for what?
(a) The destruction of Plath's journals.
(b) Incomplete editing.
(c) Plath's unhappiness.
(d) Plath's death.

3. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Dido Milroy.

4. When was Anne Stevenson born?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1922.

5. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) False selves.
(b) Personal relationships.
(c) Prejudices.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Janet Malcolm born?

2. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?

3. 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?

4. How old was Ted Hughes when Sylvia Plath died?

5. Where was Sylvia Plath born?

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