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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Joan think of her relationship with Keith by early 1982?
(a) She was obsessed with him.
(b) She accepted the fact that they were just friends.
(c) She fully accepted the divorce and did not see it as a personal rejection.
(d) She knew they would get back together.

2. What did Joan's mother do when Joan was struggling to crawl?
(a) She yelled at the baby.
(b) She gently showed the baby how to move her legs.
(c) She flattened the baby's hand with the heel of her shoe.
(d) She walked away, leaving the baby to struggle and cry.

3. As Joan began to see that she might have Multiple Personality Disorder, what else did she realize?
(a) She couldn't hold a job.
(b) Lynn had the same disorder.
(c) She didn't fit into society.
(d) Her phobias had causes.

4. What was Joan's mother's background?
(a) She was a farm girl with immigrant parents.
(b) She worked in a factory from a young age.
(c) She was an impoverished orphan.
(d) She was one of the city's elite.

5. What unusual feeling did Jo have for Steve after talking with Lynn when she ran away?
(a) Lust.
(b) Hate.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Dissatisfaction .

6. What happened to Jo's suicidal impulses when she started meeting with Lynn?
(a) They were sporadic.
(b) They increased right before each visit.
(c) They disappeared.
(d) They grew stronger.

7. What is Missy's character like?
(a) She is the little girl that likes being touched, but is afraid of talking.
(b) Angry.
(c) Serious.
(d) Flirty.

8. How did Jo feel about the book, Sybil?
(a) She refused to read it.
(b) It made her feel empty and aching for something she couldn't identify.
(c) She thought is was poor writing and never read past the first chapter.
(d) She was happy to know someone else experienced what she did.

9. What do Robin and Reagan think about the disorder?
(a) They don't care as long as they feel safe and loved.
(b) They freely admit to the diagnosis.
(c) They won't even listen to the possibility be because they thinks that it is betraying her mother if she accepts the diagnosis.
(d) They thinks it doesn't exist.

10. What began happening to some of the personalities such as Robin and Reagan?
(a) They became angry at Lynn.
(b) They became jealous of the other personalities.
(c) They became angry at Jo.
(d) They began to disappear since they were no longer needed.

11. When Lynn asked Renee how many there were inside of her, what did she realize?
(a) There were fewer than 10 personalities.
(b) She had merged into one personality.
(c) She wasn't sure, and she didn't like the uncertainty.
(d) She realized that she didn't care.

12. Joan knew that she would stop seeing Lynn in a few weeks. How did this make her feel?
(a) She was looking forward to the break.
(b) She thought maybe she should break off the sessions sooner.
(c) She decided that maybe she should continue seeing Lynn longer than she usually saw therapists.
(d) She was frustrated with herself for letting herself become attached to the therapist.

13. What did Joan tell the therapist about during their first session?
(a) She talked about her relationship with her father and told the story of his death.
(b) She talked about her relationship with her mother, focusing on her early childhood.
(c) She talked about her relationship with her sister.
(d) She talked about her marriage.

14. How did Joan feel about the other students in the waiting room at the therapist's office?
(a) She related to them when they came out of the offices all shaken up and crying.
(b) She declared that she would never be like them.
(c) She felt resentment towards them.
(d) She felt extreme pity for them.

15. How did Lynn react when she discovered that Joan did not make a follow-up appointment?
(a) She asked the clerk to call and confirm the next appointment.
(b) It made her angry.
(c) It made her feel personally rejected.
(d) She was secretly happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Lynn's colleagues feel about her case?

2. What did Jo do to progress in treatment?

3. What did the personalities make Lynn for Christmas?

4. When was Renee born?

5. Who rescues Renee when she gets in over her head?

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