View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapter VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alvarez responded to Ted Hughes in letters that his work was honest and not one of _____________.
(a) Evil motivation.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Lies.
(d) Sensationalism.

2. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) Frances McCullough.
(d) Anne Stevenson's.

3. A. Alvarez claimed to have thought that Bitter Fame was an example of ___________.
(a) "Psychodrama."
(b) "Female bitchiness."
(c) "Fiction."
(d) "Writers block."

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. A. Alvarez ended his interview with Malcolm in Part Two: Chapter VII by concluding that Ted could never accept the fact that Sylvia's life and death was ________ and he could do nothing to change that.
(a) In the public domain.
(b) Dramatic.
(c) Not perfect.
(d) A rollercoaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?

3. In a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?

4. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?

5. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 286 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample