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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 was Anne Stevenson's book Living in America: Poems published?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1979.

2. When was the publication date of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1979.

3. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Leonard Cohen.
(c) Charles Bukowski.
(d) W. B. Yeats.

4. 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 __________.
(a) The Women Everybody Should Know.
(b) Lives of Modern Women.
(c) Fascinating Women.
(d) Women of History.

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) Ted Hughes.
(c) Olwyn Hughes.
(d) Clarissa Roche.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How did Assia Wevill die?

3. When was Bitter Fame published?

4. Malcolm was surprised that Anne Stevenson confessed to having had a problem with what addiction?

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

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