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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. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Aurelia Plath.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) Jacqueline Rose.
(d) A. Alvarez.

2. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.
(a) The postal service.
(b) The Sylvia Plath myth.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) The Hughes family.

3. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?
(a) Additional material.
(b) The original manuscript.
(c) A lost journal.
(d) Love letters.

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 ___________.
(a) An atrocity.
(b) A mystery.
(c) An unjustified murder.
(d) An abomination.

5. In what year had a literary critic declared that what stood out about Plath's works was that Plath's "not nice" quality was what set her apart from her contemporaries?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1955.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was A. Alvarez born?

2. Who witnessed Sylvia weeping over Ted's infidelity, claiming that she had given her whole heart to Ted and couldn't get it back?

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?

4. What is the term used for a novel describing real life, behind a façade of fiction?

5. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?

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