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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. Jacqueline Rose only dealt with Olwyn Hughes when asking to publish _________ in her biography.

2. When did Malcolm meet with Trevor Thomas?

3. Ted felt that Sylvia's work lacked what element?

4. How many years of hell did Ted Hughes go through after Sylvia's death, according to Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter IV?

5. How did Trevor Thomas know Sylvia Plath?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Alvarez tell Malcolm about Ted and Sylvia's relationship in Part Two: Chapter VII?

2. How did Clarissa Roche know Sylvia Plath?

3. When and why did Clarissa Roche begin a biography on Sylvia? What was it like?

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

5. Where did Malcolm detour on her way to visit Clarissa Roche? Why?

6. What did Elizabeth Sigmund relate about Sylvia? How did she know her?

7. What did Malcolm write of the unread letter in Part Three: Chapter III?

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss The Savage God. When and where was this work first published? What was Ted Hughes' reaction to the piece and why?

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