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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the eve of her death, Sylvia Plath insisted on paying for what which she got from Trevor Thomas?
(a) Stamps.
(b) Books.
(c) Gas.
(d) Food.

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

3. Where was Sylvia Plath's father from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Romania.

4. Ted Hughes asked that Anne Stevenson keep Assia's story out of which book?
(a) Mask of Treason.
(b) Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop.
(c) Bitter Fame.
(d) A Game of Statues.

5. What caused Trevor Thomas to sleep until 5 p.m. the day after Sylvia Plath killed herself?
(a) Escaped gas.
(b) Depression.
(c) Sleeping pills.
(d) Hangover.

6. According to a letter from Anne Stevenson in which she provided her take on Sylvia and her work, Sylvia had used poetry as a way to stage her own what?
(a) Psychodrama.
(b) Life.
(c) Demise.
(d) Suicide.

7. Sylvia saw a therapist who felt that her relationship with whom was central to her problems?
(a) Ted.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Clarissa.
(d) Her father.

8. What did Elizabeth Sigmund portray Olwyn Hughes as being envious of in her interview with Malcolm?
(a) Sylvia's compassion and depth.
(b) Sylvia's money.
(c) Sylvia's talent and beauty.
(d) Sylvia's love from Ted.

9. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, they were met with derision--first because of Ted's admission that he had done what?
(a) Never read them.
(b) Made up several passages.
(c) Taken out parts that offended him.
(d) Lost a journal.

10. What was the name of the man Sylvia was involved with when she met Ted Hughes?
(a) Abraham Thompson.
(b) David Neighbors.
(c) Richard Sassoon.
(d) Ralph Brighton.

11. When did Malcolm meet with Trevor Thomas?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1996.

12. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

13. What poem from Ariel is written in nine 7-line stanzas, totaling sixty-three lines, and follows no rhyme scheme?
(a) Medusa.
(b) The Bee Meeting.
(c) Tulips.
(d) Morning Song.

14. There was always a close association between Sylvia's work and what?
(a) Her love of Shakespeare.
(b) Her love of Greek literature.
(c) Her spirituality.
(d) Her personal life.

15. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, it left many thinking that the words and spirit of Sylvia had been ___________.
(a) Lies.
(b) Repressed.
(c) Remembered.
(d) Immortalized.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who currently lived at the home Malcolm detoured past on her way to interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?

2. Sylvia's failed confrontation with whom in Paris comprised the most interesting and least tampered with entries of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

3. How did Trevor Thomas know Sylvia Plath?

4. In a letter to Anne Stevenson, Ted defended his stance of publicly disassociating himself from ________.

5. The protagonist in The Bell Jar is from suburbs outside what city?

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