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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. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

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

3. The editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath defended her cuts as ___________ when publishing such raw material as journal entries?
(a) Minimal.
(b) Standard.
(c) Requested.
(d) Necessary.

4. In Part Two: Chapter II, Ted described the battle Sylvia had to get her short story published in what periodical?
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) Good Housekeeping.
(c) Family Circle.
(d) The Ladies' Home Journal.

5. Ted Hughes asked that Anne Stevenson keep Assia's story out of which book?
(a) A Game of Statues.
(b) Bitter Fame.
(c) Mask of Treason.
(d) Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a letter to Anne Stevenson, Ted defended his stance of publicly disassociating himself from ________.

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

3. Ted felt that Sylvia's work lacked what element?

4. In a letter to her former lover at the end of their relationship, Sylvia told him, "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting __________."

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What parallel did Malcolm make of Anne Stevenson's relationship to Olwyn Hughes?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Clarissa Roche know Sylvia Plath?

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