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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Assia Wevill die?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

2. Sylvia wrote in her journals that she was certain she had the ability to commit suicide, murder a woman, and ____________.
(a) Outsmart a fox.
(b) Wrestle a lion.
(c) Strangle a cat.
(d) Wound a man.

3. In what year did Anne Stevenson write to Olwyn about never contacting her again?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1985.

4. Sylvia Plath's extremism and ________ were things that Anne Stevenson deplored.
(a) Agreeability.
(b) Narcissism.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Beauty.

5. When did Ted Hughes die?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1997.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2000.

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

7. How long had Anne Stevenson worked on her biography of Sylvia Plath before it was published?
(a) Four years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

8. Almost every writer, Anne Stevenson concluded, has some form of depression which stems from the internal nagging that the writer was not _____________.
(a) Pleasing their editor.
(b) Telling the truth.
(c) Living up to their potential.
(d) Engaging the reader.

9. What poem written by Sylvia Plath, originally collected in the posthumously published volume Ariel, describes the speaker's oppression with the use of World War II Nazi Germany allusions and images?
(a) Poppies in October.
(b) The Night Dances.
(c) Sheep in Fog.
(d) Lady Lazarus.

10. In her book, Jacqueline Rose took to task what work as a cause célèbre that was concocted by the Hughes?
(a) Bitter Fame.
(b) Crossing the Water.
(c) Winter Trees.
(d) Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices.

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

12. Where did Malcolm interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?
(a) Kenilworth, England.
(b) Somerset, England.
(c) Oswestry, England.
(d) Coleshill, England.

13. Where did Malcolm ask her taxi driver to detour on the way to interview Clarissa Roche?
(a) North Tawton.
(b) Cleobury Mortimer.
(c) Paddock Wood.
(d) Wimborne Minster.

14. Who currently lived at the home Malcolm detoured past on her way to interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Olwyn Hughes.

15. In Part Two: Chapters VIII, Elizabeth Sigmund mentioned that Ted and Carol no longer speak to whom?
(a) Olwyn Hughes.
(b) Clarissa Roche.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Aurelia Plath.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?

2. Ted Hughes asked that Anne Stevenson keep Assia's story out of which book?

3. How many years of hell did Ted Hughes go through after Sylvia's death, according to Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter IV?

4. Sylvia wrote in her journal that the fight at the end of the school year had caused her to lose faith in Ted. She asked why the wife was the last to see the husband's ___________.

5. Ted Hughes was outraged by Rose's inference that Plath questioned her sexual identity in what work?

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