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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapter II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter II, Ted described the battle Sylvia had to get her short story published in what periodical?
(a) Good Housekeeping.
(b) The Ladies' Home Journal.
(c) Family Circle.
(d) Rolling Stone.

2. At what meeting had Anne Stevenson appeared to speak in Part Two: Chapter I?
(a) The University Women's Club.
(b) A town hall meeting.
(c) The 4H Club.
(d) The Girl Scouts.

3. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Aurelia Plath.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Janet Malcolm.
(d) Jacqueline Rose.

4. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.
(a) An atrocity.
(b) An abomination.
(c) A mystery.
(d) An unjustified murder.

5. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Ronald Hayman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women?

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

3. When was Anne Stevenson's book Correspondences: A Family History in Letters published?

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. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?

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