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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. The man whom Sylvia Plath was dating when she met Ted Hughes did not return her _____________.
(a) Love of art.
(b) Mistrust of humanity.
(c) Love of literature.
(d) Passion.

2. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, they were met with derision--first because of Ted's admission that he had done what?
(a) Never read them.
(b) Taken out parts that offended him.
(c) Lost a journal.
(d) Made up several passages.

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

4. 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) Phillip Hobsbaum.
(c) Dido Merwin.
(d) Owlyn Hughes.

5. What poem written by Sylvia Plath, originally collected in the posthumously published volume Ariel, describes the speaker's oppression with the use of World War II Nazi Germany allusions and images?
(a) Poppies in October.
(b) Lady Lazarus.
(c) The Night Dances.
(d) Sheep in Fog.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the man Sylvia was involved with when she met Ted Hughes?

3. A. Alvarez ended his interview with Malcolm in Part Two: Chapter VII by concluding that Ted could never accept the fact that Sylvia's life and death was ________ and he could do nothing to change that.

4. The protagonist in The Bell Jar is from suburbs outside what city?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did Clarissa Roche know Sylvia Plath?

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

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

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

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