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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. Anne Stevenson left her second husband and children to go off with what poet?
(a) Allen Ginsberg.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) Phillip Hobsbaum.

2. 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) Civil rights.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Post-modernism.

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

4. How many pages did the manuscript which Anne Stevenson wrote for Penguin Books contain?
(a) 50 pages.
(b) 75 pages.
(c) 150 pages.
(d) 100 pages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a letter from Anne Stevenson in which she provided her take on Sylvia and her work, Sylvia had used poetry as a way to stage her own what?

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?

3. Under what pseudonym was The Bell Jar originally published?

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

5. When was Bitter Fame published?

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