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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Anne Stevenson's book Living in America: Poems published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1979.

2. How did Assia Wevill die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) She was hit by a car.
(c) She gassed herself.
(d) A heart attack.

3. When did Assia Wevill die?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1964.

4. Ted Hughes was outraged by Rose's inference that Plath questioned her sexual identity in what work?
(a) The Savage God.
(b) Letters Home.
(c) Rabbit Catcher.
(d) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.

5. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1981.

6. Malcolm drew a parallel between Anne Stevenson's failed relationship and her guilt-ridden past to the subservient role she took on with whom?
(a) Owlyn Hughes.
(b) Dido Merwin.
(c) Phillip Hobsbaum.
(d) Ted Hughes.

7. Anne Stevenson's early days in England were much like Sylvia's because neither woman was prepared for __________.
(a) The food.
(b) The culture shock.
(c) The accents.
(d) The weather.

8. A. Alvarez claimed that Olwyn and Ted Hughes probably chose Anne Stevenson to write a biography on Sylvia because they could ______________.
(a) Believe in her.
(b) Profit from her.
(c) Manipulate her.
(d) Feel good about themselves.

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

10. In Part Three: Chapter IV, Malcolm had another run-in with Olwyn, who felt she took Sylvia's side when a former boyfriend she interviewed felt Sylvia had __________.
(a) Excessive emotion.
(b) Borderline personality.
(c) Suicidal thoughts.
(d) Psychological issues.

11. What did Ted Hughes called Alvarez' assertion that there was a professional jealousy between him and Sylvia?
(a) Accurate.
(b) Unfounded.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Partially true.

12. Clarissa Roche first knew Sylvia Plath from when she was teaching in what years?
(a) 1953-54.
(b) 1957-58.
(c) 1960-61.
(d) 1955-56.

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

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

15. In a letter to Anne Stevenson, Ted defended his stance of publicly disassociating himself from ________.
(a) Literature.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Bitter Fame.
(d) A. Alvarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist in The Bell Jar is from suburbs outside what city?

2. Where was Sylvia Plath's father from?

3. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, they were met with derision--first because of Ted's admission that he had done what?

4. Ted Hughes asked that Anne Stevenson keep Assia's story out of which book?

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

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