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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. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.
(a) The postal service.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) The Hughes family.
(d) The Sylvia Plath myth.

2. 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?
(a) 1930's.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1920's.
(d) 1940's.

3. According to a letter from Anne Stevenson in which she provided her take on Sylvia and her work, Sylvia had used poetry as a way to stage her own what?
(a) Demise.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Psychodrama.
(d) Life.

4. When was Anne Stevenson born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1927.

5. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Frances McCullough.
(c) Janet Malcolm.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year had a literary critic declared that what stood out about Plath's works was that Plath's "not nice" quality was what set her apart from her contemporaries?

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

3. When was Ariel published?

4. There was always a close association between Sylvia's work and what?

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?

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