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

2. Who was named the literary agent for the writings of Sylvia Plath after her death?
(a) Janet Malcolm.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) Olwyn Hughes .
(d) Dido Milroy.

3. 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) Sinful poetry.
(c) Confessional poetry.
(d) Realistic poetry.

4. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?
(a) Dido Milroy.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) Janet Malcolm.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

5. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Linda Wagner-Martin.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) A. Alvarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?

2. Janet Malcolm met with Olwyn Hughes in February of what year in Part One: Chapter VI?

3. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?

4. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?

5. Who was the consulting editor on The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

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