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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. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?
(a) The original manuscript.
(b) Love letters.
(c) A lost journal.
(d) Additional material.

2. Who was the consulting editor on The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Frances McCullough.
(b) Assia Wevill.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

3. 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) 1950s.
(c) 1930's.
(d) 1920's.

4. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes avoided blame for what?
(a) The destruction of Plath's journals.
(b) Plath's unhappiness.
(c) Incomplete editing.
(d) Plath's death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?

2. When was Sylvia Plath born?

3. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?

4. Where did Anne Stevenson move after college and marrying?

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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