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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. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) Ronald Hayman.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Ted Hughes.

2. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Zero.

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

4. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?
(a) Dido Milroy.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Janet Malcolm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church begin?

2. What was the address where Sylvia committed suicide?

3. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?

4. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were separated by the fall of what year?

5. After she and Ted separated, Sylvia chose to stay in England because __________ was more accepted there.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Janet Malcolm know Anne Stevenson in their youth? What was Malcolm's opinion of her?

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

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

6. What correspondence did Malcolm have with Olwyn Hughes in Part One: Chapter IV? What was illustrated through the letters?

7. Ted Hughes wrote two introductions to The Journals of Sylvia Plath. What did he write in the first introduction, and when was this edition published?

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

9. What lecture did Malcolm read of Anne Stevenson's defense of her biography in Part Two: Chapter I?

10. What memoir did A. Alvarez write about Sylvia? What was Ted Hughes' response?

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