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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. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, it left many thinking that the words and spirit of Sylvia had been ___________.
(a) Remembered.
(b) Immortalized.
(c) Repressed.
(d) Lies.

2. When was Sylvia Plath born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1925.

3. In 1952, William Stanley Merwin's first book of poetry was published under what title?
(a) A Coat for Jamal.
(b) Glasses for Peter.
(c) A Mask for Janus.
(d) A Hat for Harrold.

4. What book by A. Alvarez about suicide gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath?
(a) Where Did It All Go Right.
(b) School of Donne.
(c) The Savage God.
(d) Life after Marriage: Scenes from Divorce.

5. Olwyn Hughes promised to get Anne Stevenson an agent and publisher who would provide what resource?
(a) A sizeable advance.
(b) Advertising.
(c) Printing presses.
(d) An editor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages did the manuscript which Anne Stevenson wrote for Penguin Books contain?

2. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?

3. Almost every writer, Anne Stevenson concluded, has some form of depression which stems from the internal nagging that the writer was not _____________.

4. What American poet was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950?

5. Anne Stevenson sent a completed draft of her story for Penguin Books to whom for his comments?

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