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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. The man whom Sylvia Plath was dating when she met Ted Hughes did not return her _____________.
(a) Mistrust of humanity.
(b) Love of art.
(c) Love of literature.
(d) Passion.

2. In what year did Anne Stevenson write to Olwyn about never contacting her again?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1983.

3. When was Jacqueline Rose born?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1949.

4. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.
(a) Cautiousness.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Envy.
(d) Admiration.

5. Who currently lived at the home Malcolm detoured past on her way to interview Clarissa Roche in Part Two: Chapter IX?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) Olwyn Hughes.
(d) A. Alvarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. Malcolm was surprised that Anne Stevenson confessed to having had a problem with what addiction?

2. Anne Stevenson's early days in England were much like Sylvia's because neither woman was prepared for __________.

3. Since Sylvia's death, Ted had served two masters--the literary artist who wanted her work to be her legacy and ____________.

4. Sylvia wrote in her journals that she was certain she had the ability to commit suicide, murder a woman, and ____________.

5. Elizabeth Sigmund was friends with Sylvia Plath for how long?

Short Essay Questions

1. What parallel did Malcolm make of Anne Stevenson's relationship to Olwyn Hughes?

2. What outraged Ted Hughes in The Haunting of Sylvia Plath? What response did the author write?

3. What did Elizabeth Sigmund relate about Sylvia? How did she know her?

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

5. What did Ted Hughes write to Anne Stevenson regarding Bitter Fame?

6. How did Clarissa Roche know Sylvia Plath?

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

8. When and why did Anne Stevenson and Olwyn Hughes put their differences behind them?

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

10. When and why did Clarissa Roche begin a biography on Sylvia? What was it like?

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