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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. In what year did Anne Stevenson write to Olwyn about never contacting her again?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1983.

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?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Phillip Hobsbaum.
(c) Owlyn Hughes.
(d) Dido Merwin.

3. Sylvia Plath met Ted Hughes during her last year at which school?
(a) Dartmouth College.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Brown University.
(d) Smith College.

4. Clarissa Roche first knew Sylvia Plath from when she was teaching in what years?
(a) 1953-54.
(b) 1957-58.
(c) 1960-61.
(d) 1955-56.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Ariel published?

3. Anne Stevenson claimed that in her early days in England she reached for a drink much as Sylvia reached for ___________.

4. What poem from Ariel is written in nine 7-line stanzas, totaling sixty-three lines, and follows no rhyme scheme?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What surprised Malcolm about Anne Stevenson in her similarities to Sylvia?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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