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

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) Her lost journals.
(c) The perfect editor.
(d) Happiness.

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

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

5. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?
(a) University of Montana.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) University of Illinois.
(d) University of Idaho.

Short Answer Questions

1. What university had Sylvia Plath attended?

2. When was Bitter Fame published?

3. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?

4. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

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?

(see the answer key)

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