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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?
(a) Love letters.
(b) Additional material.
(c) A lost journal.
(d) The original manuscript.

2. Anne Stevenson explained in Part Two: Chapter I that she had been commissioned to write a story about Sylvia Plath in a series for Penguin Books called __________.
(a) The Women Everybody Should Know.
(b) Women of History.
(c) Fascinating Women.
(d) Lives of Modern Women.

3. 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?
(a) Clarissa Roche.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Olwyn Hughes.

4. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?
(a) Janet Malcolm.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Frances McCullough.

5. There was always a close association between Sylvia's work and what?
(a) Her spirituality.
(b) Her love of Greek literature.
(c) Her personal life.
(d) Her love of Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. Janet Malcolm met with Olwyn Hughes in February of what year in Part One: Chapter VI?

2. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes avoided blame for what?

3. How did Assia Wevill die?

4. In a letter to her former lover at the end of their relationship, Sylvia told him, "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting __________."

5. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?

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