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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 wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) Jacqueline Rose.
(d) Aurelia Plath.
2. Anne Stevenson began a lecture describing how her and Sylvia's background as well as ideology were similar, and they had both married _________.
(a) Adulterers.
(b) Englishmen.
(c) Incorrectly.
(d) Hastily.
3. In their interview in Part Two: Chapter I, Anne Stevenson told Malcolm of the hurt she felt when a critic had accused her of ___________.
(a) Being envious of Plath's talent.
(b) Telling lies.
(c) Secretly hating Plath.
(d) Leaving out details.
4. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Ronald Hayman.
(d) Ted Hughes.
5. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?
(a) University of Illinois.
(b) University of Montana.
(c) University of Idaho.
(d) University of Michigan.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Anne Stevenson move after college and marrying?
2. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?
3. How many pages did the manuscript which Anne Stevenson wrote for Penguin Books contain?
4. What reprinting of letters, in which Sylvia wrote to her mother and which displayed her nice daughter side, was published by Plath's mother?
5. What university had Sylvia Plath attended?
Short Essay Questions
1. When were Ted and Sylvia separated? What did Sylvia reveal to Alvarez during that time?
2. What did critic Ronald Hayman write about Bitter Fame?
3. What was the first official bad review of Bitter Fame? Who wrote it?
4. What did Anne Stevenson do with the manuscript she had been commissioned to write about Sylvia Plath for a series at Penguin Books?
5. Aurelia Plath's intentions in having her daughter's letters published is implied to be in retaliation for what?
6. What did Aurelia Plath have published regarding Sylvia after her death? Why?
7. What was Sylvia Plath's response to her mother's criticism of her dark works?
8. What did Olwyn Hughes offer Anne Stevenson if she would write a biography about Sylvia?
9. What power did Olwyn Hughes have over the Plath Library? What was Malcolm's impression of her after working with her on the book?
10. What correspondence did Malcolm have with Olwyn Hughes in Part One: Chapter IV? What was illustrated through the letters?
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