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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. When did Malcolm meet with Trevor Thomas?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1996.

2. Alvarez responded to Ted Hughes in letters that his work was honest and not one of _____________.
(a) Lies.
(b) Evil motivation.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Sensationalism.

3. Sylvia saw a therapist who felt that her relationship with whom was central to her problems?
(a) Ted.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Clarissa.

4. Sylvia wrote in her journals that she was certain she had the ability to commit suicide, murder a woman, and ____________.
(a) Wound a man.
(b) Wrestle a lion.
(c) Strangle a cat.
(d) Outsmart a fox.

5. Elizabeth Sigmund was friends with Sylvia Plath for how long?
(a) One year.
(b) Six years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Clarissa Roche's husband of whom Sylvia had less than kind things to say about?

2. A. Alvarez claimed that Olwyn and Ted Hughes probably chose Anne Stevenson to write a biography on Sylvia because they could ______________.

3. The man whom Sylvia Plath was dating when she met Ted Hughes did not return her _____________.

4. When did Ted Hughes die?

5. Ted Hughes asked that Anne Stevenson keep Assia's story out of which book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Anne Stevenson assert as her take on Sylvia in a letter to Malcolm?

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

3. How did Elizabeth Sigmund describe Olwyn Hughes?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Clarissa Roche know Sylvia Plath?

10. What did Elizabeth Sigmund relate about Sylvia? How did she know her?

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