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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 book did A. Alvarez write on the subject of divorce?
2. What did Elizabeth Sigmund portray Olwyn Hughes as being envious of in her interview with Malcolm?
3. Elizabeth Sigmund recounted an incident, soon after Sylvia's death, in which Ted did all except __________.
4. When did Ted Hughes die?
5. According to a letter from Anne Stevenson in which she provided her take on Sylvia and her work, Sylvia had used poetry as a way to stage her own what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Elizabeth Sigmund relate about Sylvia? How did she know her?
2. Where did Malcolm detour on her way to visit Clarissa Roche? Why?
3. How did Anne Stevenson equate her early days in England with Sylvia Plath's?
4. What did Alvarez tell Malcolm about Ted and Sylvia's relationship in Part Two: Chapter VII?
5. How did Sylvia Plath demonstrate her "not nice" side in her journals?
6. Why was the book The Journals of Sylvia Plath widely criticized?
7. When was The Haunting of Sylvia Plath written? What was its premise?
8. Describe the letters that Malcolm read between Anne Stevenson and Olwyn Hughes. What was the relationship between the women like?
9. What parallel did Malcolm make of Anne Stevenson's relationship to Olwyn Hughes?
10. Who was Trevor Thomas? What did Malcolm learn from him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the life and career of the author. What led Janet Malcolm to approach this subject and book?
Essay Topic 2
Describe Dido Merwin and her critical response of Bitter Fame. What were the main points of the biography which were attacked and why?
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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