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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. How many years of hell did Ted Hughes go through after Sylvia's death, according to Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter IV?
2. Almost every writer, Anne Stevenson concluded, has some form of depression which stems from the internal nagging that the writer was not _____________.
3. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?
4. What was the name of the man Sylvia was involved with when she met Ted Hughes?
5. In a letter to her former lover at the end of their relationship, Sylvia told him, "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting __________."
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Trevor Thomas? What did Malcolm learn from him?
2. When and why did Clarissa Roche begin a biography on Sylvia? What was it like?
3. What was A. Alvarez's main criticism about Anne Stevenson's biography of Sylvia?
4. What did Elizabeth Sigmund relate about Sylvia? How did she know her?
5. What did Anne Stevenson assert as her take on Sylvia in a letter to Malcolm?
6. Where did Malcolm detour on her way to visit Clarissa Roche? Why?
7. What public dispute did Alvarez and Ted Hughes have via letters?
8. How did Anne Stevenson equate her early days in England with Sylvia Plath's?
9. What letter did Plath write to Richard Sassoon in The Journals of Sylvia Plath? How did this relate to her later poetry?
10. What did Ted Hughes write to Anne Stevenson regarding Bitter Fame?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the biography The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. When was it published and by whom?
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
Discuss A. Alvarez and his critical response to the book Bitter Fame. What did Alvarez's review state about the work?
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