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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Janet Malcolm travel to meet with Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter I?
(a) Shirebrook, England.
(b) Helmsley, England.
(c) Beaconsfield, England.
(d) Durham, England.

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

3. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?
(a) Assia Wevill.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Ted Hughes.

4. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.
(a) Almost drove off the road.
(b) Cut her wrist.
(c) Attempted to hang herself.
(d) Played Russian roulette.

5. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1982.

6. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) A. Alvarez's.
(b) Ronald Hayman's.
(c) Janet Malcolm's.
(d) Anne Stevenson's.

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

8. Under what pseudonym was The Bell Jar originally published?
(a) Cassandra Owens.
(b) Victoria Lucas.
(c) Melissa Bouvier.
(d) Johanna Mills.

9. When was A. Alvarez born?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1922.

10. When was Janet Malcolm born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1937.

11. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?
(a) The New York Review of Books.
(b) Literature Weekly.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

12. What university did Sylvia Plath attend in England?
(a) Exeter University.
(b) Rhodes University.
(c) Cambridge University.
(d) Oxford University.

13. How old was Ted Hughes when Sylvia Plath died?
(a) 29.
(b) 32.
(c) 41.
(d) 39.

14. When was the book The Colossus and Other Poems first published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1960.

15. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes avoided blame for what?
(a) Incomplete editing.
(b) Plath's unhappiness.
(c) Plath's death.
(d) The destruction of Plath's journals.

Short Answer Questions

1. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.

2. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?

3. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?

4. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?

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

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