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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. 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) Charles Stevenson.
(d) Harold Stevenson.

2. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Linda Wagner-Martin.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

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

4. How long had Anne Stevenson worked on her biography of Sylvia Plath before it was published?
(a) Four years.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Five years.

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) Post-modernism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?

2. The woman who had found the flat for the Hughes described in in Part One: Chapter VII recalled how Sylvia eschewed her suggestion to buy _____________.

3. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?

4. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?

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

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