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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Truthful poetry.
(b) Confessional poetry.
(c) Realistic poetry.
(d) Sinful poetry.

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

3. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) A. Alvarez's.
(b) Janet Malcolm's.
(c) Anne Stevenson's.
(d) Ronald Hayman's.

4. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) Frances McCullough.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

5. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?
(a) 11,000.
(b) 1,800.
(c) 3,700.
(d) 15,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?

2. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?

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. When was Anne Stevenson born?

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

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