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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. 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) Religion.
(c) Prejudices.
(d) Personal relationships.

2. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Time Magazine.
(d) Rolling Stone.

3. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?
(a) Charles Stevenson.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) Assia Wevill.
(d) Frances McCullough.

4. Who was the consulting editor on The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Assia Wevill.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Frances McCullough.

5. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?
(a) Charles Stevenson.
(b) Richard Stevenson.
(c) Robert Stevenson.
(d) Harold Stevenson.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sylvia Plath die?

2. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?

3. What university had Sylvia Plath attended?

4. When did Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry?

5. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?

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