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

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

3. Who was the consulting editor on The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Assia Wevill.
(b) Frances McCullough.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was A. Alvarez born?

2. What reprinting of letters, in which Sylvia wrote to her mother and which displayed her nice daughter side, was published by Plath's mother?

3. Anne Stevenson tried to defend herself in her speech in Part Two: Chapter I by explaining that some of her work was tainted by the controlling hands of whom?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What struggle did Ted face after the death of Sylvia Plath?

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

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

4. What was Sylvia Plath's response to her mother's criticism of her dark works?

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

6. What did Aurelia Plath have published regarding Sylvia after her death? Why?

7. What was A. Alvarez's first impression of Ted and Sylvia? How did that opinion change?

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

9. When were Ted and Sylvia separated? What did Sylvia reveal to Alvarez during that time?

10. Where did Olwyn and Malcolm go together in Part One: Chapter VII? What did Malcolm learn there?

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