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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.
(a) An atrocity.
(b) An abomination.
(c) An unjustified murder.
(d) A mystery.

2. In the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes commented how in the last several years of her life, Sylvia had found ______________.
(a) Her true voice as a poet.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Her lost journals.
(d) The perfect editor.

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

4. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?
(a) 1920's.
(b) 1940's.
(c) 1930's.
(d) 1950s.

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) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Dido Milroy.
(c) Frances McCullough.
(d) Olwyn Hughes .

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?

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

3. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?

4. When was Sylvia Plath born?

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

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