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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. In Part Two: Chapters VIII, Elizabeth Sigmund mentioned that Ted and Carol no longer speak to whom?
(a) Clarissa Roche.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Olwyn Hughes.
(d) A. Alvarez.

2. How did Assia Wevill die?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) Cancer.
(c) She gassed herself.
(d) She was hit by a car.

3. Sylvia wrote in her journal that the fight at the end of the school year had caused her to lose faith in Ted. She asked why the wife was the last to see the husband's ___________.
(a) "Wounds."
(b) "Hemorrhoid."
(c) "Ulcer."
(d) "Warts."

4. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, they were met with derision--first because of Ted's admission that he had done what?
(a) Lost a journal.
(b) Made up several passages.
(c) Never read them.
(d) Taken out parts that offended him.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Clarissa Roche first knew Sylvia Plath from when she was teaching at what school?

3. How long had Anne Stevenson worked on her biography of Sylvia Plath before it was published?

4. What did Malcolm feel like upon arriving at Sylvia's former home in Part Two: Chapter IX?

5. What poem written by Sylvia Plath, originally collected in the posthumously published volume Ariel, describes the speaker's oppression with the use of World War II Nazi Germany allusions and images?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Alvarez tell Malcolm about Ted and Sylvia's relationship in Part Two: Chapter VII?

3. How did Elizabeth Sigmund describe Olwyn Hughes?

4. What kind of life did Anne Stevenson live? How was she similar to Sylvia Plath?

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

6. How did Clarissa Roche know Sylvia Plath?

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

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

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

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

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