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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. A. Alvarez claimed to have thought that Bitter Fame was an example of ___________.
(a) "Fiction."
(b) "Writers block."
(c) "Female bitchiness."
(d) "Psychodrama."

2. What university did Sylvia Plath attend in England?
(a) Cambridge University.
(b) Exeter University.
(c) Rhodes University.
(d) Oxford University.

3. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?
(a) Mental illness.
(b) Lack of exercise.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Tooth decay.

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

5. To assuage Ted's hurt artistic side, A. Alvarez wrote in a letter that he felt Ted and Sylvia were ______________.
(a) The best poets of their generation.
(b) True intellectuals.
(c) The greatest love story of all time.
(d) Beautiful souls.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Olwyn Hughes gave Anne Stevenson whose account that was unflattering to Sylvia to review in Part Two: Chapter I?

3. 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 __________.

4. When was Ronald Hayman born?

5. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.

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