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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. What game had Elizabeth Sigmund played with Olwyn Hughes on a few occasions?
(a) Poker.
(b) Croquet.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Badminton.

2. Immediately after Sylvia's suicide, whom did Elizabeth Sigmund blame?
(a) Olwyn Hughes.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Clarissa Roche.
(d) Ted Hughes.

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

4. What was the title of Ted Hughes' last work?
(a) Flowers and Insects.
(b) The Hawk in the Rain.
(c) Birthday Letters.
(d) Wolfwatching.

5. Alvarez responded to Ted Hughes in letters that his work was honest and not one of _____________.
(a) Lies.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Sensationalism.
(d) Evil motivation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In her book, Jacqueline Rose took to task what work as a cause célèbre that was concocted by the Hughes?

3. A. Alvarez claimed that Olwyn and Ted Hughes probably chose Anne Stevenson to write a biography on Sylvia because they could ______________.

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

5. What book did A. Alvarez write on the subject of divorce?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Anne Stevenson reveal about Ted Hughes in her interview with Malcolm in Part Two: Chapter IV?

2. What did Anne Stevenson assert as her take on Sylvia in a letter to Malcolm?

3. What biographies offended the Hughes family the most? Why?

4. When was The Haunting of Sylvia Plath written? What was its premise?

5. Describe the letters that Malcolm read between Anne Stevenson and Olwyn Hughes. What was the relationship between the women like?

6. Who was Trevor Thomas? What did Malcolm learn from him?

7. How did the editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath defend herself to criticism?

8. What public dispute did Alvarez and Ted Hughes have via letters?

9. What did Alvarez tell Malcolm about Ted and Sylvia's relationship in Part Two: Chapter VII?

10. When and why did Clarissa Roche begin a biography on Sylvia? What was it like?

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