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

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

2. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?
(a) Robert Stevenson.
(b) Richard Stevenson.
(c) Harold Stevenson.
(d) Charles Stevenson.

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

4. What biography mentioned a cloth beneath Sylvia's head as she inhaled the gas fumes and a testimonial statement by her doctor that she had been in a dire mental condition?
(a) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.
(b) The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath.
(c) Bitter Fame.
(d) Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness: A Biography.

5. What refers to a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Post-modernism.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?

2. When was Janet Malcolm born?

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

4. Where was A. Alvarez born?

5. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.

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