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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. 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 __________.

2. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, it left many thinking that the words and spirit of Sylvia had been ___________.

3. When did Malcolm meet with Trevor Thomas?

4. What is the name of the protagonist in The Bell Jar?

5. What caused Trevor Thomas to sleep until 5 p.m. the day after Sylvia Plath killed herself?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What parallel did Malcolm make of Anne Stevenson's relationship to Olwyn Hughes?

3. When and why did Anne Stevenson and Olwyn Hughes put their differences behind them?

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

5. When and why did Ted Hughes and A. Alvarez put their differences behind them?

6. What surprised Malcolm about Anne Stevenson in her similarities to Sylvia?

7. How did Anne Stevenson equate her early days in England with Sylvia Plath's?

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

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

10. What outraged Ted Hughes in The Haunting of Sylvia Plath? What response did the author write?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the suicide of Sylvia Plath and its impact on Ted Hughes. What led to Hughes' separation from Plath?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze The Bell Jar and its depiction of Sylvia's relationship with her mother. What about the work did Aurelia find "ungrateful"?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the biography The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. When was it published and by whom?

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