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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. In a letter to her former lover at the end of their relationship, Sylvia told him, "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting __________."
(a) Death.
(b) One thing.
(c) Something.
(d) Nothing.

2. Ted Hughes asked that Anne Stevenson keep Assia's story out of which book?
(a) Bitter Fame.
(b) Mask of Treason.
(c) Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop.
(d) A Game of Statues.

3. In a letter to Anne Stevenson, Ted defended his stance of publicly disassociating himself from ________.
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Literature.
(d) Bitter Fame.

4. Olwyn Hughes gave Anne Stevenson whose account that was unflattering to Sylvia to review in Part Two: Chapter I?
(a) Ted Hughes'.
(b) Elizabeth Sigmund's.
(c) Clarissa Roche's.
(d) Dido Merwin's.

5. Where did Malcolm ask her taxi driver to detour on the way to interview Clarissa Roche?
(a) Cleobury Mortimer.
(b) Paddock Wood.
(c) Wimborne Minster.
(d) North Tawton.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 _____________.

2. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?

3. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?

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 __________.

5. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?

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