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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) Ronald Hayman.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) A. Alvarez.

2. A. Alvarez ended his interview with Malcolm in Part Two: Chapter VII by concluding that Ted could never accept the fact that Sylvia's life and death was ________ and he could do nothing to change that.
(a) A rollercoaster.
(b) In the public domain.
(c) Not perfect.
(d) Dramatic.

3. When was Ronald Hayman born?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1929.

4. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?
(a) Anne Stevenson's.
(b) A. Alvarez's.
(c) Ted Hughes'.
(d) Janet Malcolm's.

5. A. Alvarez claimed that Olwyn and Ted Hughes probably chose Anne Stevenson to write a biography on Sylvia because they could ______________.
(a) Manipulate her.
(b) Profit from her.
(c) Feel good about themselves.
(d) Believe in her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Anne Stevenson tried to defend herself in her speech in Part Two: Chapter I by explaining that some of her work was tainted by the controlling hands of whom?

3. Where did Janet Malcolm travel to meet with Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter I?

4. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?

5. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?

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