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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. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?
2. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.
3. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?
4. 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?
5. Anne Stevenson began a lecture describing how her and Sylvia's background as well as ideology were similar, and they had both married _________.
Short Essay Questions
1. How old were Sylvia and Ted when Sylvia died? How did she die?
2. How did Sylvia's demeanor and image change from her youth to her death?
3. What lecture did Malcolm read of Anne Stevenson's defense of her biography in Part Two: Chapter I?
4. How did Anne Stevenson find she related to Sylvia Plath in their youths?
5. What happened between Linda Wagner-Martin and Ted and Olwyn Hughes?
6. What two friends of Sylvia perpetuated the negative image of Ted Hughes? How?
7. What was the first official bad review of Bitter Fame? Who wrote it?
8. Aurelia Plath's intentions in having her daughter's letters published is implied to be in retaliation for what?
9. What did critic Ronald Hayman write about Bitter Fame?
10. What is Plath's book The Bell Jar about? What was Sylvia's mother's reaction to the work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the correlations between Anne Stevenson's life and that of Sylvia Plath. What similarities did these female writers share? What differences?
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
Describe and discuss Sylvia Plath's father and his relationship with the author. How is this relationship depicted in "Daddy"?
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