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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?
(a) Munich.
(b) Prague.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

2. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?
(a) She was considered ignorant.
(b) She was detested.
(c) She was untrusted.
(d) She was admired.

3. Sylvia Plath met Ted Hughes during her last year at which school?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Brown University.
(c) Dartmouth College.
(d) Smith College.

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

5. The author writes that biographers love letters since they are the fossils of ___________.
(a) Emotions.
(b) Influence.
(c) Time.
(d) Thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. Almost every writer, Anne Stevenson concluded, has some form of depression which stems from the internal nagging that the writer was not _____________.

2. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?

3. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?

4. When was Janet Malcolm born?

5. In Part Two: Chapter IV, Malcolm hadn't been able to interview Alvarez or Ted because who basically disallowed it?

(see the answer key)

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