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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters III, IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

3. Sylvia saw a therapist who felt that her relationship with whom was central to her problems?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Ted.
(c) Her father.
(d) Clarissa.

4. When was Janet Malcolm born?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1934.

5. In Part Two: Chapter IV, Malcolm hadn't been able to interview Alvarez or Ted because who basically disallowed it?
(a) Clarissa Roche.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Frances McCullough.
(d) Olwyn Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages did the manuscript which Anne Stevenson wrote for Penguin Books contain?

2. 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?

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

4. What was the name of Sylvia Plath's mother?

5. When was the novel The Bell Jar first published under Sylvia Plath's name?

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