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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. In a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?
(a) Sylvia's marriage to Hughes.
(b) Sylvia's suicide.
(c) Ted's affair.
(d) Sylvia's childhood.

2. 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) Incorrectly.
(c) Hastily.
(d) Adulterers.

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

4. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?
(a) Anne Stevenson's.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) Frances McCullough.
(d) A. Alvarez.

5. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.
(a) Envy.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Cautiousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?

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

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

4. Alvarez responded to Ted Hughes in letters that his work was honest and not one of _____________.

5. At what meeting had Anne Stevenson appeared to speak in Part Two: Chapter I?

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