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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A. Alvarez's remarks placed Sylvia's suicide in what type of scenario?
(a) "No go."
(b) "As if."
(c) "Look at me."
(d) "If only."

2. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?
(a) 11,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 3,700.
(d) 1,800.

3. Olwyn Hughes promised to get Anne Stevenson an agent and publisher who would provide what resource?
(a) An editor.
(b) Advertising.
(c) A sizeable advance.
(d) Printing presses.

4. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?
(a) University of Michigan.
(b) University of Montana.
(c) University of Illinois.
(d) University of Idaho.

5. When was Anne Stevenson born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1927.

6. When did Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1956.

7. The Bell Jar is based in part on Plath's own life and, in particular, her suicide attempt in what year?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1950.

8. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?
(a) A. Alvarez's.
(b) Ted Hughes'.
(c) Anne Stevenson's.
(d) Janet Malcolm's.

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

10. Olwyn didn't write her own book because she wasn't a writer and, as Ted told her, no one would have ________.
(a) Been willing to publish it.
(b) Believed her account.
(c) Bought the book.
(d) Understood her language.

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

12. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1944.

13. The woman who had found the flat for the Hughes described in in Part One: Chapter VII recalled how Sylvia eschewed her suggestion to buy _____________.
(a) A phonograph.
(b) A car.
(c) Used appliances or furniture.
(d) A bicycle.

14. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Linda Wagner-Martin.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What biography mentioned a cloth beneath Sylvia's head as she inhaled the gas fumes and a testimonial statement by her doctor that she had been in a dire mental condition?

2. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?

3. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?

4. When was A. Alvarez born?

5. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.

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