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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. What is the term used for a novel describing real life, behind a façade of fiction?
(a) Nonfiction fiction.
(b) Roman a clef.
(c) Biography.
(d) Autobiography.

2. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

3. What poems did Plath write for the most part in the two months after Ted had left Devon?
(a) The Colossus and Other Poems.
(b) Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices.
(c) Winter Trees.
(d) Ariel.

4. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Personal relationships.
(b) Religion.
(c) Prejudices.
(d) False selves.

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) Clarissa Roche.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Olwyn Hughes.
(d) Ted Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In their interview in Part Two: Chapter I, Anne Stevenson told Malcolm of the hurt she felt when a critic had accused her of ___________.

2. When was Anne Stevenson born?

3. How old was Ted Hughes when Sylvia Plath died?

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

5. Where was Sylvia Plath's father from?

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