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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 Plath's extremism and ________ were things that Anne Stevenson deplored.
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Agreeability.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Arrogance.

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

3. 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) Taken out parts that offended him.
(b) Made up several passages.
(c) Lost a journal.
(d) Never read them.

4. Since Sylvia's death, Ted had served two masters--the literary artist who wanted her work to be her legacy and ____________.
(a) The protector of his children's mother.
(b) An ambassador of truth.
(c) The ultimate critic.
(d) Her eternal lover.

5. When was Jacqueline Rose's biography of Sylvia Plath published?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1991.

Short Answer 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 ___________.

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

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

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

5. According to a letter from Anne Stevenson in which she provided her take on Sylvia and her work, Sylvia had used poetry as a way to stage her own what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was the book The Journals of Sylvia Plath widely criticized?

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

5. How did Sylvia Plath demonstrate her "not nice" side in her journals?

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

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

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

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

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

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