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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. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?
(a) She overdosed.
(b) She shot herself.
(c) She gassed herself.
(d) She hung herself.

2. 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?
(a) Confessional poetry.
(b) Realistic poetry.
(c) Truthful poetry.
(d) Sinful poetry.

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

4. When was Anne Stevenson born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1922.

5. 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 unjustified murder.
(b) An abomination.
(c) A mystery.
(d) An atrocity.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?

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 ______________.

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

4. Who edited The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

5. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?

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