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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anne Stevenson left her second husband and children to go off with what poet?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Phillip Hobsbaum.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

2. When was Anne Stevenson's book Correspondences: A Family History in Letters published?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1971.

3. Ted Hughes had sued Trevor Thomas for claiming that on the night of Sylvia's funeral, Ted __________.
(a) Held a big party.
(b) Cried all night.
(c) Banged loudly on the floors and walls.
(d) Got in a fight with him.

4. What memoir did Trevor Thomas write that described Sylvia Plath?
(a) Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness: A Biography.
(b) Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage.
(c) Sylvia Plath: Last Encounters.
(d) Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath.

5. What did Elizabeth Sigmund portray Olwyn Hughes as being envious of in her interview with Malcolm?
(a) Sylvia's talent and beauty.
(b) Sylvia's love from Ted.
(c) Sylvia's money.
(d) Sylvia's compassion and depth.

6. What poem from Ariel is written in nine 7-line stanzas, totaling sixty-three lines, and follows no rhyme scheme?
(a) Tulips.
(b) Medusa.
(c) Morning Song.
(d) The Bee Meeting.

7. Since Sylvia's death, Ted had served two masters--the literary artist who wanted her work to be her legacy and ____________.
(a) The protector of his children's mother.
(b) The ultimate critic.
(c) Her eternal lover.
(d) An ambassador of truth.

8. Ted felt that Sylvia's work lacked what element?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Truth.
(d) Proofreading.

9. When did Ted Hughes die?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1997.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1998.

10. When was Ariel published?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1965.

11. What is the name of the protagonist in The Bell Jar?
(a) Anne Swanson.
(b) Carol Thompson.
(c) Linda Rollins.
(d) Esther Greenwood.

12. 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?
(a) Life.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Demise.
(d) Psychodrama.

13. Anne Stevenson wrote that "it took me two unhappy marriages and ____ children to make me reconsider my assumptions."
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

14. In her journals, Sylvia demonstrated her violent nature when she characterized her rude behavior in a confrontation she had with young girls doing what in a public park while she was doing the same thing?
(a) Littering.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Yelling.
(d) Cutting flowers.

15. Sylvia wrote in her journal that the fight at the end of the school year had caused her to lose faith in Ted. She asked why the wife was the last to see the husband's ___________.
(a) "Warts."
(b) "Ulcer."
(c) "Hemorrhoid."
(d) "Wounds."

Short Answer Questions

1. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.

2. On the eve of her death, Sylvia Plath insisted on paying for what which she got from Trevor Thomas?

3. When did Assia Wevill die?

4. Jacqueline Rose only dealt with Olwyn Hughes when asking to publish _________ in her biography.

5. How did Trevor Thomas know Sylvia Plath?

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