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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. Under what pseudonym was The Bell Jar originally published?
(a) Victoria Lucas.
(b) Johanna Mills.
(c) Melissa Bouvier.
(d) Cassandra Owens.

2. In what year had a literary critic declared that what stood out about Plath's works was that Plath's "not nice" quality was what set her apart from her contemporaries?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1971.

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

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

5. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?
(a) Frances McCullough.
(b) Dido Milroy.
(c) Olwyn Hughes .
(d) Anne Stevenson.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 __________.

2. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?

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

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

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

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