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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. What reprinting of letters, in which Sylvia wrote to her mother and which displayed her nice daughter side, was published by Plath's mother?
(a) Letters Home.
(b) A Loving Correspondence.
(c) A Daughter Far Away.
(d) Love, Sylvia.

2. Olwyn didn't write her own book because she wasn't a writer and, as Ted told her, no one would have ________.
(a) Understood her language.
(b) Bought the book.
(c) Been willing to publish it.
(d) Believed her account.

3. There was always a close association between Sylvia's work and what?
(a) Her love of Shakespeare.
(b) Her spirituality.
(c) Her love of Greek literature.
(d) Her personal life.

4. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Narcissism.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Arrogance.

5. When was Anne Stevenson's book Correspondences: A Family History in Letters published?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1974.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What literary genre emphasizes the intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and despondence?

3. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?

4. Malcolm drew a parallel between Anne Stevenson's failed relationship and her guilt-ridden past to the subservient role she took on with whom?

5. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."

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