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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 Colossus and Other Poems?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Linda Wagner-Martin.

2. What was the address where Sylvia committed suicide?
(a) 168 Holland Circle.
(b) 439 Meadow Lane.
(c) 75 Kirkland Drive.
(d) 23 Fitzroy Road.

3. Where was Sylvia Plath born?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Maine.

4. Who witnessed Sylvia weeping over Ted's infidelity, claiming that she had given her whole heart to Ted and couldn't get it back?
(a) Aurelia Plath.
(b) Clarissa Roche.
(c) Elizabeth Sigmund.
(d) Olwyn Hughes.

5. Olwyn Hughes promised to get Anne Stevenson an agent and publisher who would provide what resource?
(a) Advertising.
(b) A sizeable advance.
(c) Printing presses.
(d) An editor.

Short Answer Questions

1. A. Alvarez's remarks placed Sylvia's suicide in what type of scenario?

2. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.

3. What refers to a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women?

4. When was Anne Stevenson born?

5. What book by A. Alvarez about suicide gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Janet Malcolm compare her writing to Anne Stevenson's in college? What was Stevenson's career like?

2. 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?

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

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

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. What power did Olwyn Hughes have over the Plath Library? What was Malcolm's impression of her after working with her on the book?

8. What friend of Sylvia Plath's commented negatively about her life and death in Part One: Chapter II?

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

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

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