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

2. On the eve of her death, Sylvia Plath insisted on paying for what which she got from Trevor Thomas?

3. Clarissa Roche first knew Sylvia Plath from when she was teaching at what school?

4. When was Anne Stevenson's book Living in America: Poems published?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of life did Anne Stevenson live? How was she similar to Sylvia Plath?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did Sylvia Plath demonstrate her "not nice" side in her journals?

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

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

10. Where did Malcolm detour on her way to visit Clarissa Roche? Why?

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 the correlations between Anne Stevenson's life and that of Sylvia Plath. What similarities did these female writers share? What differences?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the relationship between Anne Stevenson and Ted and Olwyn Hughes. How did Anne come to work with Olwyn on the biography?

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