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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?
(a) Sylvia's childhood.
(b) Ted's affair.
(c) Sylvia's marriage to Hughes.
(d) Sylvia's suicide.

2. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, it left many thinking that the words and spirit of Sylvia had been ___________.
(a) Immortalized.
(b) Remembered.
(c) Repressed.
(d) Lies.

3. What was the name of Clarissa Roche's husband of whom Sylvia had less than kind things to say about?
(a) Jim.
(b) Mark.
(c) Paul.
(d) Frank.

4. How did Trevor Thomas know Sylvia Plath?
(a) He lived below her.
(b) He worked at her favorite restraunt.
(c) They went to school together.
(d) They worked together at one time.

5. Ted Hughes was outraged by Rose's inference that Plath questioned her sexual identity in what work?
(a) The Savage God.
(b) Rabbit Catcher.
(c) Letters Home.
(d) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.

6. Elizabeth Sigmund recounted an incident, soon after Sylvia's death, in which Ted did all except __________.
(a) Show remorse.
(b) Blame Sylvia for all his problems.
(c) Take responsibility for Sylvia's death.
(d) Attack her.

7. What was the name of the man Sylvia was involved with when she met Ted Hughes?
(a) David Neighbors.
(b) Abraham Thompson.
(c) Ralph Brighton.
(d) Richard Sassoon.

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

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

10. Ted felt that Sylvia's work lacked what element?
(a) Proofreading.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Truth.

11. When was Anne Stevenson's book Correspondences: A Family History in Letters published?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1974.

12. What was the title of Ted Hughes' last work?
(a) The Hawk in the Rain.
(b) Birthday Letters.
(c) Wolfwatching.
(d) Flowers and Insects.

13. Clarissa Roche first knew Sylvia Plath from when she was teaching in what years?
(a) 1953-54.
(b) 1955-56.
(c) 1957-58.
(d) 1960-61.

14. Anne Stevenson claimed that in her early days in England she reached for a drink much as Sylvia reached for ___________.
(a) Suicide.
(b) Rescue.
(c) Fame.
(d) Understanding.

15. When was Ariel published?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1968.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who currently lived at the home Malcolm detoured past on her way to interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?

2. A. Alvarez claimed that Olwyn and Ted Hughes probably chose Anne Stevenson to write a biography on Sylvia because they could ______________.

3. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?

4. Since Sylvia's death, Ted had served two masters--the literary artist who wanted her work to be her legacy and ____________.

5. The protagonist in The Bell Jar is from suburbs outside what city?

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