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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. Anne Stevenson sent a completed draft of her story for Penguin Books to whom for his comments?
(a) Dr. Horder.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) W. B. Yeats.

2. When was Ariel published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1962.

3. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?
(a) Janet Malcolm.
(b) Anne Stevenson's.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Frances McCullough.

4. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Ronald Hayman.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Ted Hughes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who edited The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

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

3. Olwyn Hughes gave Anne Stevenson whose account that was unflattering to Sylvia to review in Part Two: Chapter I?

4. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?

5. Olwyn Hughes promised to get Anne Stevenson an agent and publisher who would provide what resource?

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