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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. What book by A. Alvarez about suicide gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath?
2. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?
3. When was A. Alvarez born?
4. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?
5. Olwyn Hughes gave Anne Stevenson whose account that was unflattering to Sylvia to review in Part Two: Chapter I?
Short Essay Questions
1. What friend of Sylvia Plath's commented negatively about her life and death in Part One: Chapter II?
2. What is Plath's book The Bell Jar about? What was Sylvia's mother's reaction to the work?
3. How did Janet Malcolm know Anne Stevenson in their youth? What was Malcolm's opinion of her?
4. What correspondence did Malcolm have with Olwyn Hughes in Part One: Chapter IV? What was illustrated through the letters?
5. How did Anne Stevenson find she related to Sylvia Plath in their youths?
6. Aurelia Plath's intentions in having her daughter's letters published is implied to be in retaliation for what?
7. What happened between Linda Wagner-Martin and Ted and Olwyn Hughes?
8. Which biography of Sylvia Plath did Malcolm find to be the best? What criticism did the book meet?
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 was A. Alvarez's first impression of Ted and Sylvia? How did that opinion change?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the biography The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. When was it published and by whom?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the two introductions of The Journals of Sylvia Plath and analyze the introductions of each. What differences are in the work of Ted Hughes in the book?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss A. Alvarez and his critical response to the book Bitter Fame. What did Alvarez's review state about the work?
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