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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1945.

2. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?
(a) Assia Wevill.
(b) Charles Stevenson.
(c) Frances McCullough.
(d) Janet Malcolm.

3. 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) A mystery.
(c) An unjustified murder.
(d) An abomination.

4. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?
(a) Harold Stevenson.
(b) Robert Stevenson.
(c) Richard Stevenson.
(d) Charles Stevenson.

5. 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) 1940's.
(b) 1920's.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1930's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?

2. When was the publication date of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

3. In the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes commented how in the last several years of her life, Sylvia had found ______________.

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

5. What literary genre emphasizes the intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and despondence?

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