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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. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.

2. Where did Malcolm ask her taxi driver to detour on the way to interview Clarissa Roche?

3. When was Jacqueline Rose born?

4. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."

5. In Part Two: Chapter IV, Malcolm hadn't been able to interview Alvarez or Ted because who basically disallowed it?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and why did Anne Stevenson and Olwyn Hughes put their differences behind them?

2. How did the editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath defend herself to criticism?

3. What biographies offended the Hughes family the most? Why?

4. What was A. Alvarez's main criticism about Anne Stevenson's biography of Sylvia?

5. How did Sylvia Plath demonstrate her "not nice" side in her journals?

6. Describe the letters that Malcolm read between Anne Stevenson and Olwyn Hughes. What was the relationship between the women like?

7. What did Ted Hughes write to Anne Stevenson regarding Bitter Fame?

8. Why was the book The Journals of Sylvia Plath widely criticized?

9. How did Anne Stevenson equate her early days in England with Sylvia Plath's?

10. What outraged Ted Hughes in The Haunting of Sylvia Plath? What response did the author write?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the aftermath of Bitter Fame's publication. Should Anne Stevenson have published the book, considering her apprehension about its validity? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the relationship between Sylvia Plath and Olwyn Hughes. What were Malcolm's first impressions of Olwyn like?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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