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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. In Part Two: Chapter IV, Malcolm hadn't been able to interview Alvarez or Ted because who basically disallowed it?
2. The author writes that biographers love letters since they are the fossils of ___________.
3. Alvarez responded to Ted Hughes in letters that his work was honest and not one of _____________.
4. In Part Three: Chapter IV, Malcolm had another run-in with Olwyn, who felt she took Sylvia's side when a former boyfriend she interviewed felt Sylvia had __________.
5. There was always a close association between Sylvia's work and what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What surprised Malcolm about Anne Stevenson in her similarities to Sylvia?
2. What biographies offended the Hughes family the most? Why?
3. How did Elizabeth Sigmund describe Olwyn Hughes?
4. Where did Malcolm detour on her way to visit Clarissa Roche? Why?
5. What was A. Alvarez's main criticism about Anne Stevenson's biography of Sylvia?
6. What letter did Plath write to Richard Sassoon in The Journals of Sylvia Plath? How did this relate to her later poetry?
7. What did Alvarez tell Malcolm about Ted and Sylvia's relationship in Part Two: Chapter VII?
8. What public dispute did Alvarez and Ted Hughes have via letters?
9. How did Anne Stevenson equate her early days in England with Sylvia Plath's?
10. What parallel did Malcolm make of Anne Stevenson's relationship to Olwyn Hughes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the suicide of Sylvia Plath and its impact on Ted Hughes. What led to Hughes' separation from Plath?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the life and career of the author. What led Janet Malcolm to approach this subject and book?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and analyze Sylvia Plath's The Wishing Box. How was Plath's personal life and emotional state revealed in the work? When was it published?
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