1. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.
(a) To kill herself.
(b) To write a best seller.
(c) To be famous.
(d) To get divorced.

2. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?
(a) Literature Weekly.
(b) The New York Review of Books.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

3. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.
(a) A dowdy little housewife.
(b) The perfect woman.
(c) A literary genious.
(d) A trophy wife.

4. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?
(a) She was untrusted.
(b) She was considered ignorant.
(c) She was admired.
(d) She was detested.

5. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?

2. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?

3. What university had Sylvia Plath attended?

4. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?

5. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?

(see the answer key)

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