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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. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?
2. Where did Anne Stevenson move after college and marrying?
3. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?
4. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?
5. What literary genre emphasizes the intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and despondence?
Short Essay Questions
1. When were Ted and Sylvia separated? What did Sylvia reveal to Alvarez during that time?
2. Describe the house Sylvia rented in London. What were her impressions of the residence?
3. Aurelia Plath's intentions in having her daughter's letters published is implied to be in retaliation for what?
4. What two friends of Sylvia perpetuated the negative image of Ted Hughes? How?
5. What was Sylvia Plath's response to her mother's criticism of her dark works?
6. What did Ted Hughes write in the second edition introduction of The Journals of Sylvia Plath? When was it published?
7. What does Malcolm write of the power and struggle of the biographer in Part One: Chapter I?
8. What friend of Sylvia Plath's commented negatively about her life and death in Part One: Chapter II?
9. 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?
10. What did critic Ronald Hayman write about Bitter Fame?
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 Dido Merwin and her critical response of Bitter Fame. What were the main points of the biography which were attacked and why?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the coming-of-age period during the 1950s of Sylvia Plath. How did the public and critics respond to Plath's poetry? What impact did she have on women during the period in which the feminist movement began?
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