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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Anne Stevenson move after college and marrying?
(a) Spain.
(b) Canada.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

2. How many pages did the manuscript which Anne Stevenson wrote for Penguin Books contain?
(a) 75 pages.
(b) 150 pages.
(c) 100 pages.
(d) 50 pages.

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

4. 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 car.
(b) Used appliances or furniture.
(c) A phonograph.
(d) A bicycle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?
(a) 1920's.
(b) 1930's.
(c) 1940's.
(d) 1950s.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was named the literary agent for the writings of Sylvia Plath after her death?

2. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?

3. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?

4. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

5. Toward the end of her life, according to Alvarez, Sylvia Plath developed a problem with ___________.

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