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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anne Stevenson left her second husband and children to go off with what poet?
(a) Phillip Hobsbaum.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

2. Where was Sylvia Plath's father from?
(a) Poland.
(b) Russia.
(c) Romania.
(d) Germany.

3. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Assia Wevill.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

4. What editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath was criticized for her own omission of some works?
(a) Helen Barry.
(b) Roberta Jefferies.
(c) Amanda Reynolds.
(d) Frances McCullough.

5. Who currently lived at the home Malcolm detoured past on her way to interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?
(a) Olwyn Hughes.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Ted Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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 ___________.

3. At what meeting had Anne Stevenson appeared to speak in Part Two: Chapter I?

4. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?

5. After she and Ted separated, Sylvia chose to stay in England because __________ was more accepted there.

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