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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. What editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath was criticized for her own omission of some works?
(a) Frances McCullough.
(b) Roberta Jefferies.
(c) Helen Barry.
(d) Amanda Reynolds.

2. What did Ted Hughes called Alvarez' assertion that there was a professional jealousy between him and Sylvia?
(a) Accurate.
(b) Partially true.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Unfounded.

3. Ted Hughes asked that Anne Stevenson keep Assia's story out of which book?
(a) Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop.
(b) Mask of Treason.
(c) Bitter Fame.
(d) A Game of Statues.

4. How did Trevor Thomas know Sylvia Plath?
(a) They worked together at one time.
(b) He lived below her.
(c) He worked at her favorite restraunt.
(d) They went to school together.

5. Where was Sylvia Plath's father from?
(a) Russia.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Romania.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a letter from Anne Stevenson in which she provided her take on Sylvia and her work, Sylvia had used poetry as a way to stage her own what?

2. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, it left many thinking that the words and spirit of Sylvia had been ___________.

3. Who currently lived at the home Malcolm detoured past on her way to interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?

4. In a letter to her former lover at the end of their relationship, Sylvia told him, "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting __________."

5. Sylvia resigned from teaching when she and Ted decided to make a living on __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Anne Stevenson assert as her take on Sylvia in a letter to Malcolm?

2. When was The Haunting of Sylvia Plath written? What was its premise?

3. What surprised Malcolm about Anne Stevenson in her similarities to Sylvia?

4. What did Malcolm write of the unread letter in Part Three: Chapter III?

5. How did the editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath defend herself to criticism?

6. How did Anne Stevenson equate her early days in England with Sylvia Plath's?

7. When and why did Ted Hughes and A. Alvarez put their differences behind them?

8. How did Sylvia Plath demonstrate her "not nice" side in her journals?

9. What biographies offended the Hughes family the most? Why?

10. Describe the letters that Malcolm read between Anne Stevenson and Olwyn Hughes. What was the relationship between the women like?

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