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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was A. Alvarez born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1922.

2. When did Sylvia Plath die?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1971.

3. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?
(a) Choosing a cover for the book.
(b) The publishing of the book.
(c) Reviews of the book being published.
(d) Completion of the manuscript.

4. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) The New Yorker.

5. A. Alvarez noted that toward the end of her life, Sylvia's once reserved persona was replaced with an aggressive one, most apparent when she was doing what activity?
(a) Arguing.
(b) Delivering readings of her poetry.
(c) Reciting the Bible.
(d) Addressing critics.

6. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?
(a) University of Montana.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) University of Illinois.
(d) University of Idaho.

7. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Aurelia Plath.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Jacqueline Rose.
(d) Janet Malcolm.

8. In 1952, William Stanley Merwin's first book of poetry was published under what title?
(a) A Coat for Jamal.
(b) A Mask for Janus.
(c) Glasses for Peter.
(d) A Hat for Harrold.

9. What is the term used for a novel describing real life, behind a façade of fiction?
(a) Biography.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Roman a clef.
(d) Nonfiction fiction.

10. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.
(a) Attempted to hang herself.
(b) Almost drove off the road.
(c) Cut her wrist.
(d) Played Russian roulette.

11. Anne Stevenson began a lecture describing how her and Sylvia's background as well as ideology were similar, and they had both married _________.
(a) Hastily.
(b) Adulterers.
(c) Incorrectly.
(d) Englishmen.

12. Where did Anne Stevenson move after college and marrying?
(a) England.
(b) Spain.
(c) Canada.
(d) Italy.

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

14. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?
(a) Lack of exercise.
(b) Tooth decay.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Mental illness.

15. 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?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1920's.
(c) 1940's.
(d) 1930's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women?

2. The woman who had found the flat for the Hughes described in in Part One: Chapter VII recalled how Sylvia eschewed her suggestion to buy _____________.

3. Where was Sylvia Plath born?

4. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?

5. When was the publication date of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

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