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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) The Sylvia Plath myth.
(c) The postal service.
(d) The Hughes family.

2. Anne Stevenson explained in Part Two: Chapter I that she had been commissioned to write a story about Sylvia Plath in a series for Penguin Books called __________.
(a) Lives of Modern Women.
(b) Women of History.
(c) Fascinating Women.
(d) The Women Everybody Should Know.

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

4. Where was A. Alvarez born?
(a) El Salvador.
(b) Mexico.
(c) England.
(d) Spain.

5. What refers to a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women?
(a) Post-modernism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?

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

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

4. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?

5. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. How old were Sylvia and Ted when Sylvia died? How did she die?

2. Describe the house Sylvia rented in London. What were her impressions of the residence?

3. What does Malcolm write of the power and struggle of the biographer in Part One: Chapter I?

4. What qualities of Sylvia Plath's work made her appealing to feminists?

5. How did Sylvia's demeanor and image change from her youth to her death?

6. What did Ted Hughes write in the second edition introduction of The Journals of Sylvia Plath? When was it published?

7. What happened between Linda Wagner-Martin and Ted and Olwyn Hughes?

8. What was the first official bad review of Bitter Fame? Who wrote it?

9. What did Olwyn Hughes offer Anne Stevenson if she would write a biography about Sylvia?

10. Aurelia Plath's intentions in having her daughter's letters published is implied to be in retaliation for what?

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