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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. How many children did Assia Wevill have with Ted Hughes?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Zero.
(d) Three.

2. Clarissa Roche first knew Sylvia Plath from when she was teaching in what years?
(a) 1957-58.
(b) 1960-61.
(c) 1953-54.
(d) 1955-56.

3. How long had Anne Stevenson worked on her biography of Sylvia Plath before it was published?
(a) Four years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five years.

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 __________."
(a) Something.
(b) One thing.
(c) Death.
(d) Nothing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ted Hughes called Alvarez' assertion that there was a professional jealousy between him and Sylvia?

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

3. Sylvia Plath's extremism and ________ were things that Anne Stevenson deplored.

4. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?

5. What did Elizabeth Sigmund portray Olwyn Hughes as being envious of in her interview with Malcolm?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What letter did Plath write to Richard Sassoon in The Journals of Sylvia Plath? How did this relate to her later poetry?

3. What was A. Alvarez's main criticism about Anne Stevenson's biography of Sylvia?

4. Who was Trevor Thomas? What did Malcolm learn from him?

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

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

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

8. How did Elizabeth Sigmund describe Olwyn Hughes?

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

10. Why was the book The Journals of Sylvia Plath widely criticized?

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