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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. Anne Stevenson sent a completed draft of her story for Penguin Books to whom for his comments?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Dr. Horder.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) W. B. Yeats.

2. How many pages did the manuscript which Anne Stevenson wrote for Penguin Books contain?
(a) 150 pages.
(b) 75 pages.
(c) 100 pages.
(d) 50 pages.

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

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

5. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Prague.
(d) Munich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?

2. Where did Janet Malcolm travel to meet with Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter I?

3. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?

4. In a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?

5. A. Alvarez claimed that Olwyn and Ted Hughes probably chose Anne Stevenson to write a biography on Sylvia because they could ______________.

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