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

2. What did Ted Hughes called Alvarez' assertion that there was a professional jealousy between him and Sylvia?
(a) Unfounded.
(b) Accurate.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Partially true.

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

4. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) The Sylvia Plath myth.
(c) The Hughes family.
(d) The postal service.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?

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

4. 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 __________.

5. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?

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