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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 a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?

2. Sylvia saw a therapist who felt that her relationship with whom was central to her problems?

3. What was the name of the man Sylvia was involved with when she met Ted Hughes?

4. When was Anne Stevenson's book Living in America: Poems published?

5. The author writes that biographers love letters since they are the fossils of ___________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Clarissa Roche know Sylvia Plath?

3. What surprised Malcolm about Anne Stevenson in her similarities to Sylvia?

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

5. What parallel did Malcolm make of Anne Stevenson's relationship to Olwyn Hughes?

6. When and why did Ted Hughes and A. Alvarez put their differences behind them?

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

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

9. What did Anne Stevenson reveal about Ted Hughes in her interview with Malcolm in Part Two: Chapter IV?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Sylvia Plath's relationship with Richard Sassoon. When did they meet? How long did they have a relationship? What ended it?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Linda Wagner-Martin and Ronald Hayman. When was Wagner-Martin's biography written? Was it published?

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