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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 the book The Colossus and Other Poems first published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1950.

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

3. When did the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church begin?
(a) 12th Century A.D.
(b) 11th Century A.D.
(c) 13th Century A.D.
(d) 14th Century A.D.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?

2. When was A. Alvarez born?

3. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?

4. 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 ___________.

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

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