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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. What was the name of the man Sylvia was involved with when she met Ted Hughes?
(a) Ralph Brighton.
(b) Richard Sassoon.
(c) David Neighbors.
(d) Abraham Thompson.

2. A. Alvarez claimed to have thought that Bitter Fame was an example of ___________.
(a) "Fiction."
(b) "Writers block."
(c) "Female bitchiness."
(d) "Psychodrama."

3. The protagonist in The Bell Jar is from suburbs outside what city?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Miami, Florida.
(d) San Francisco, California.

4. When was Anne Stevenson's book Correspondences: A Family History in Letters published?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1971.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."

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

3. How many children did Assia Wevill have with Ted Hughes?

4. In Part Two: Chapters VIII, Elizabeth Sigmund mentioned that Ted and Carol no longer speak to whom?

5. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, they were met with derision--first because of Ted's admission that he had done what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Malcolm write of the unread letter in Part Three: Chapter III?

6. What public dispute did Alvarez and Ted Hughes have via letters?

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

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

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

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

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