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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. When was Janet Malcolm born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1929.

2. When was Bitter Fame published?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1993.

3. Janet Malcolm met with Olwyn Hughes in February of what year in Part One: Chapter VI?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1989.

4. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) Ronald Hayman's.
(b) A. Alvarez's.
(c) Janet Malcolm's.
(d) Anne Stevenson's.

5. Where did Anne Stevenson move after college and marrying?
(a) Canada.
(b) Spain.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

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. There was always a close association between Sylvia's work and what?

3. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?

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

5. In 1952, William Stanley Merwin's first book of poetry was published under what title?

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