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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 Ted seen as in Sylvia's life, according to her therapist?
(a) A best friend.
(b) A father figure.
(c) A brother.
(d) A teacher.

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

3. Sylvia wrote in her journal that the fight at the end of the school year had caused her to lose faith in Ted. She asked why the wife was the last to see the husband's ___________.
(a) "Wounds."
(b) "Ulcer."
(c) "Warts."
(d) "Hemorrhoid."

4. In her journals, Sylvia demonstrated her violent nature when she characterized her rude behavior in a confrontation she had with young girls doing what in a public park while she was doing the same thing?
(a) Yelling.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Littering.
(d) Cutting flowers.

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) The Night Dances.
(b) Lady Lazarus.
(c) Sheep in Fog.
(d) Poppies in October.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Malcolm drew a parallel between Anne Stevenson's failed relationship and her guilt-ridden past to the subservient role she took on with whom?

3. In Part Two: Chapter IV, Malcolm hadn't been able to interview Alvarez or Ted because who basically disallowed it?

4. When was Anne Stevenson's book Correspondences: A Family History in Letters published?

5. How long had Anne Stevenson worked on her biography of Sylvia Plath before it was published?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Elizabeth Sigmund describe Olwyn Hughes?

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

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