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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. When was Anne Stevenson's book Living in America: Poems published?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1971.
2. In what year did Anne Stevenson write to Olwyn about never contacting her again?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1983.
3. Clarissa Roche first knew Sylvia Plath from when she was teaching in what years?
(a) 1953-54.
(b) 1957-58.
(c) 1960-61.
(d) 1955-56.
4. In Part Two: Chapter IV, Malcolm hadn't been able to interview Alvarez or Ted because who basically disallowed it?
(a) Olwyn Hughes.
(b) Clarissa Roche.
(c) Aurelia Plath.
(d) Frances McCullough.
5. In her journals, Sylvia demonstrated her violent nature when she characterized her rude behavior in a confrontation she had with young girls doing what in a public park while she was doing the same thing?
(a) Cutting flowers.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Littering.
(d) Smoking.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of Clarissa Roche's husband of whom Sylvia had less than kind things to say about?
2. Where was Sylvia Plath's father from?
3. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.
4. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, it left many thinking that the words and spirit of Sylvia had been ___________.
5. Since Sylvia's death, Ted had served two masters--the literary artist who wanted her work to be her legacy and ____________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was the book The Journals of Sylvia Plath widely criticized?
2. How did Elizabeth Sigmund describe Olwyn Hughes?
3. How did Clarissa Roche know Sylvia Plath?
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. When and why did Clarissa Roche begin a biography on Sylvia? What was it like?
7. Who was Trevor Thomas? What did Malcolm learn from him?
8. What did Elizabeth Sigmund relate about Sylvia? How did she know her?
9. What kind of life did Anne Stevenson live? How was she similar to Sylvia Plath?
10. What was A. Alvarez's main criticism about Anne Stevenson's biography of Sylvia?
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