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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. Jacqueline Rose only dealt with Olwyn Hughes when asking to publish _________ in her biography.
(a) Entire poems.
(b) Letters from her brother.
(c) Quotes of hers.
(d) An introduction.

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

3. Malcolm drew a parallel between Anne Stevenson's failed relationship and her guilt-ridden past to the subservient role she took on with whom?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Dido Merwin.
(c) Owlyn Hughes.
(d) Phillip Hobsbaum.

4. When did Ted Hughes die?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2001.

5. Sylvia resigned from teaching when she and Ted decided to make a living on __________.
(a) His investments.
(b) Her inheritance.
(c) Their writing.
(d) Their publishing company.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Sylvia's failed confrontation with whom in Paris comprised the most interesting and least tampered with entries of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

3. Ted Hughes had sued Trevor Thomas for claiming that on the night of Sylvia's funeral, Ted __________.

4. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.

5. When was Jacqueline Rose's biography of Sylvia Plath published?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where did Malcolm detour on her way to visit Clarissa Roche? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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