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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were separated by the fall of what year?
2. The woman who had found the flat for the Hughes described in in Part One: Chapter VII recalled how Sylvia eschewed her suggestion to buy _____________.
3. What poems did Plath write for the most part in the two months after Ted had left Devon?
4. Who was the consulting editor on The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
5. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Plath's book The Bell Jar about? What was Sylvia's mother's reaction to the work?
2. What qualities of Sylvia Plath's work made her appealing to feminists?
3. What was Sylvia Plath's response to her mother's criticism of her dark works?
4. What was A. Alvarez's first impression of Ted and Sylvia? How did that opinion change?
5. What did Anne Stevenson do with the manuscript she had been commissioned to write about Sylvia Plath for a series at Penguin Books?
6. Where did Olwyn and Malcolm go together in Part One: Chapter VII? What did Malcolm learn there?
7. How old were Sylvia and Ted when Sylvia died? How did she die?
8. What was Anne Stevenson's response at a meeting of the University Women's Club in London where she was being taken to task for her portrayal of Sylvia in her book?
9. Ted Hughes wrote two introductions to The Journals of Sylvia Plath. What did he write in the first introduction, and when was this edition published?
10. What did Olwyn Hughes offer Anne Stevenson if she would write a biography about Sylvia?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the relationship between Anne Stevenson and Ted and Olwyn Hughes. How did Anne come to work with Olwyn on the biography?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the relationship between Janet Malcolm and Anne Stevenson at the University of Michigan. When did Stevenson's writing career take off?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Linda Wagner-Martin and Ronald Hayman. When was Wagner-Martin's biography written? Was it published?
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