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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters V and VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Bitter Fame published?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1991.

2. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?
(a) Janet Malcolm.
(b) Anne Stevenson's.
(c) Frances McCullough.
(d) A. Alvarez.

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

4. When did Sylvia Plath die?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1969.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reprinting of letters, in which Sylvia wrote to her mother and which displayed her nice daughter side, was published by Plath's mother?

3. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.

4. What was the name of Sylvia Plath's mother?

5. Where was Sylvia Plath born?

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