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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. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) Assia Wevill.
(d) A. Alvarez.

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

3. What refers to a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Post-modernism.

4. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?
(a) Choosing a cover for the book.
(b) Completion of the manuscript.
(c) The publishing of the book.
(d) Reviews of the book being published.

5. When was the novel The Bell Jar first published under Sylvia Plath's name?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1970.

Short Answer 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?

2. Olwyn Hughes promised to get Anne Stevenson an agent and publisher who would provide what resource?

3. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?

4. What university did Sylvia Plath attend in England?

5. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.

(see the answer key)

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