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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Olwyn Hughes promised to get Anne Stevenson an agent and publisher who would provide what resource?
(a) An editor.
(b) Advertising.
(c) A sizeable advance.
(d) Printing presses.

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

3. Anne Stevenson began a lecture describing how her and Sylvia's background as well as ideology were similar, and they had both married _________.
(a) Englishmen.
(b) Hastily.
(c) Adulterers.
(d) Incorrectly.

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

5. The Bell Jar is based in part on Plath's own life and, in particular, her suicide attempt in what year?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1950.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Janet Malcolm born?

2. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?

3. Anne Stevenson sent a completed draft of her story for Penguin Books to whom for his comments?

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

5. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?

(see the answer key)

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