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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?
(a) The New York Review of Books.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) Literature Weekly.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

2. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?
(a) She shot herself.
(b) She gassed herself.
(c) She overdosed.
(d) She hung herself.

3. When was The Bell Jar first published?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1961.

4. Malcolm was surprised that Anne Stevenson confessed to having had a problem with what addiction?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Drug addiction.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Men.

5. Anne Stevenson tried to defend herself in her speech in Part Two: Chapter I by explaining that some of her work was tainted by the controlling hands of whom?
(a) Aurelia Plath.
(b) Olwyn Hughes.
(c) Clarissa Roche.
(d) Ted Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her youth, Sylvia was known for her American neatness and what color hair?

2. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?

3. Anne Stevenson explained in Part Two: Chapter I that she had been commissioned to write a story about Sylvia Plath in a series for Penguin Books called __________.

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

5. Malcolm drew a parallel between Anne Stevenson's failed relationship and her guilt-ridden past to the subservient role she took on with whom?

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