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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 "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) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Dido Milroy.
(c) Olwyn Hughes .
(d) Frances McCullough.

2. 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) An abomination.
(b) An atrocity.
(c) An unjustified murder.
(d) A mystery.

3. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Zero.

4. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1947.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. When did Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry?

4. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?

5. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?

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