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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 university had Sylvia Plath attended?
2. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.
3. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?
4. Sylvia had told her mother about the dismal kitchens and ____________ in England.
5. Toward the end of her life, according to Alvarez, Sylvia Plath developed a problem with ___________.
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Ted Hughes write in the second edition introduction of The Journals of Sylvia Plath? When was it published?
2. What memoir did A. Alvarez write about Sylvia? What was Ted Hughes' response?
3. What friend of Sylvia Plath's commented negatively about her life and death in Part One: Chapter II?
4. What was Sylvia Plath's response to her mother's criticism of her dark works?
5. What was A. Alvarez's first impression of Ted and Sylvia? How did that opinion change?
6. Which biography of Sylvia Plath did Malcolm find to be the best? What criticism did the book meet?
7. What did Olwyn Hughes offer Anne Stevenson if she would write a biography about Sylvia?
8. When were Ted and Sylvia separated? What did Sylvia reveal to Alvarez during that time?
9. What was the first official bad review of Bitter Fame? Who wrote it?
10. Aurelia Plath's intentions in having her daughter's letters published is implied to be in retaliation for what?
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 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 and discuss Sylvia Plath's father and his relationship with the author. How is this relationship depicted in "Daddy"?
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