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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. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.
2. In what year had a literary critic declared that what stood out about Plath's works was that Plath's "not nice" quality was what set her apart from her contemporaries?
3. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes avoided blame for what?
4. When was Ronald Hayman born?
5. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What friend of Sylvia Plath's commented negatively about her life and death in Part One: Chapter II?
3. What struggle did Ted face after the death of Sylvia Plath?
4. What did Aurelia Plath have published regarding Sylvia after her death? Why?
5. Where did Olwyn and Malcolm go together in Part One: Chapter VII? What did Malcolm learn there?
6. How old were Sylvia and Ted when Sylvia died? How did she die?
7. Which biography of Sylvia Plath did Malcolm find to be the best? What criticism did the book meet?
8. What portrait of Sylvia Plath did Anne Stevenson paint in her biography of Sylvia? Why did critics refute that image?
9. What did Ted Hughes write in the second edition introduction of The Journals of Sylvia Plath? When was it published?
10. What memoir did A. Alvarez write about Sylvia? What was Ted Hughes' response?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss The Savage God. When and where was this work first published? What was Ted Hughes' reaction to the piece and why?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and analyze The Bell Jar and its depiction of Sylvia's relationship with her mother. What about the work did Aurelia find "ungrateful"?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the psychological assessments of Sylvia Plath. What psychiatrist did Plath see during her struggle with depression? For what did Plath show symptoms?
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