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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?
2. How many pages did the manuscript which Anne Stevenson wrote for Penguin Books contain?
3. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?
4. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were separated by the fall of what year?
5. After she and Ted separated, Sylvia chose to stay in England because __________ was more accepted there.
Short Essay Questions
1. What struggle did Ted face after the death of Sylvia Plath?
2. Where did Olwyn and Malcolm go together in Part One: Chapter VII? What did Malcolm learn there?
3. What portrait of Sylvia Plath did Anne Stevenson paint in her biography of Sylvia? Why did critics refute that image?
4. What did critic Ronald Hayman write about Bitter Fame?
5. How old were Sylvia and Ted when Sylvia died? How did she die?
6. What did Aurelia Plath have published regarding Sylvia after her death? Why?
7. When were Ted and Sylvia separated? What did Sylvia reveal to Alvarez during that time?
8. What does Malcolm write of the power and struggle of the biographer in Part One: Chapter I?
9. What did Ted Hughes write in the second edition introduction of The Journals of Sylvia Plath? When was it published?
10. What happened between Linda Wagner-Martin and Ted and Olwyn Hughes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss Sylvia Plath's father and his relationship with the author. How is this relationship depicted in "Daddy"?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss A. Alvarez and his critical response to the book Bitter Fame. What did Alvarez's review state about the work?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the coming-of-age period during the 1950s of Sylvia Plath. How did the public and critics respond to Plath's poetry? What impact did she have on women during the period in which the feminist movement began?
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