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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters III, IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?
(a) Bread and milk.
(b) Milk and cookies.
(c) Their backpacks.
(d) A note.

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

3. In 1952, William Stanley Merwin's first book of poetry was published under what title?
(a) A Coat for Jamal.
(b) A Hat for Harrold.
(c) Glasses for Peter.
(d) A Mask for Janus.

4. How many pages did the manuscript which Anne Stevenson wrote for Penguin Books contain?
(a) 150 pages.
(b) 75 pages.
(c) 50 pages.
(d) 100 pages.

5. Almost every writer, Anne Stevenson concluded, has some form of depression which stems from the internal nagging that the writer was not _____________.
(a) Engaging the reader.
(b) Living up to their potential.
(c) Telling the truth.
(d) Pleasing their editor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Immediately after Sylvia's suicide, whom did Elizabeth Sigmund blame?

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. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?

4. Where did Janet Malcolm travel to meet with Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter I?

5. What poems did Plath write for the most part in the two months after Ted had left Devon?

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