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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?
(a) Dr. Hollingsworth.
(b) Dr. Horder.
(c) Dr. Hefner.
(d) Dr. Holiday.

2. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.
(a) A literary genious.
(b) The perfect woman.
(c) A dowdy little housewife.
(d) A trophy wife.

3. 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 ___________.
(a) An unjustified murder.
(b) An abomination.
(c) A mystery.
(d) An atrocity.

4. What university had Sylvia Plath attended?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Dartmouth College.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Smith College.

5. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Janet Malcolm.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Jacqueline Rose.
(d) A. Alvarez.

6. Anne Stevenson sent a completed draft of her story for Penguin Books to whom for his comments?
(a) Dr. Horder.
(b) W. B. Yeats.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) A. Alvarez.

7. Who edited The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) Assia Wevill.
(d) Frances McCullough.

8. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?
(a) London.
(b) Munich.
(c) Paris.
(d) Prague.

9. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) Newsweek.

10. 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?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Olwyn Hughes.
(c) Clarissa Roche.
(d) Aurelia Plath.

11. Anne Stevenson began a lecture describing how her and Sylvia's background as well as ideology were similar, and they had both married _________.
(a) Incorrectly.
(b) Englishmen.
(c) Hastily.
(d) Adulterers.

12. Who was the consulting editor on The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) Assia Wevill.
(d) Frances McCullough.

13. Who witnessed Sylvia weeping over Ted's infidelity, claiming that she had given her whole heart to Ted and couldn't get it back?
(a) Elizabeth Sigmund.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Olwyn Hughes.
(d) Clarissa Roche.

14. When was Ronald Hayman born?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1932.

15. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Ted Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?

4. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?

5. When was The Bell Jar first published?

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