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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 did Trevor Thomas know Sylvia Plath?
(a) They worked together at one time.
(b) He worked at her favorite restraunt.
(c) He lived below her.
(d) They went to school together.

2. In Part Three: Chapter IV, Malcolm had another run-in with Olwyn, who felt she took Sylvia's side when a former boyfriend she interviewed felt Sylvia had __________.
(a) Suicidal thoughts.
(b) Psychological issues.
(c) Borderline personality.
(d) Excessive emotion.

3. When was Ariel published?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1968.

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

5. Since Sylvia's death, Ted had served two masters--the literary artist who wanted her work to be her legacy and ____________.
(a) Her eternal lover.
(b) The ultimate critic.
(c) An ambassador of truth.
(d) The protector of his children's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Immediately after Sylvia's suicide, whom did Elizabeth Sigmund blame?

2. On the eve of her death, Sylvia Plath insisted on paying for what which she got from Trevor Thomas?

3. What was the title of Ted Hughes' last work?

4. When did Malcolm meet with Trevor Thomas?

5. What book did A. Alvarez write on the subject of divorce?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Richard Sassoon? How did Sylvia know him?

3. How did Elizabeth Sigmund describe Olwyn Hughes?

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

5. What did Anne Stevenson reveal about Ted Hughes in her interview with Malcolm in Part Two: Chapter IV?

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

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

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

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

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

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