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

2. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?
(a) Completion of the manuscript.
(b) Reviews of the book being published.
(c) The publishing of the book.
(d) Choosing a cover for the book.

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

4. 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) Olwyn Hughes.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) Aurelia Plath.
(d) Clarissa Roche.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?

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

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

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

5. When did Ted Hughes die?

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