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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Olwyn didn't write her own book because she wasn't a writer and, as Ted told her, no one would have ________.
(a) Understood her language.
(b) Been willing to publish it.
(c) Bought the book.
(d) Believed her account.

2. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?
(a) Richard Stevenson.
(b) Charles Stevenson.
(c) Robert Stevenson.
(d) Harold Stevenson.

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

4. When was Janet Malcolm born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1937.

5. What refers to a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Post-modernism.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Modernism.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the book The Colossus and Other Poems first published?

2. Sylvia had told her mother about the dismal kitchens and ____________ in England.

3. A. Alvarez's remarks placed Sylvia's suicide in what type of scenario?

4. 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?

5. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?

Short Essay Questions

1. What correspondence did Malcolm have with Olwyn Hughes in Part One: Chapter IV? What was illustrated through the letters?

2. How did Anne Stevenson find she related to Sylvia Plath in their youths?

3. How old were Sylvia and Ted when Sylvia died? How did she die?

4. Where did Olwyn and Malcolm go together in Part One: Chapter VII? What did Malcolm learn there?

5. What did Anne Stevenson do with the manuscript she had been commissioned to write about Sylvia Plath for a series at Penguin Books?

6. What did critic Ronald Hayman write about Bitter Fame?

7. What did Olwyn Hughes offer Anne Stevenson if she would write a biography about Sylvia?

8. Ted Hughes wrote two introductions to The Journals of Sylvia Plath. What did he write in the first introduction, and when was this edition published?

9. What two friends of Sylvia perpetuated the negative image of Ted Hughes? How?

10. How did Sylvia's demeanor and image change from her youth to her death?

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