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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. 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) "Warts."
(c) "Ulcer."
(d) "Hemorrhoid."

2. 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) Cutting flowers.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Littering.

3. What did Ted Hughes called Alvarez' assertion that there was a professional jealousy between him and Sylvia?
(a) Unfounded.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Accurate.
(d) Partially true.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?

2. Sylvia saw a therapist who felt that her relationship with whom was central to her problems?

3. When did Ted Hughes die?

4. How did Trevor Thomas know Sylvia Plath?

5. Clarissa Roche first knew Sylvia Plath from when she was teaching in what years?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Elizabeth Sigmund describe Olwyn Hughes?

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

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

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

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

6. When and why did Clarissa Roche begin a biography on Sylvia? What was it like?

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

8. What biographies offended the Hughes family the most? Why?

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

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

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