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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sybil's condition a result of?
(a) Education.
(b) Environment and nature.
(c) History.
(d) Environment.

2. Where does Sybil almost drown?
(a) Her emotions.
(b) A pond.
(c) A wheat bin.
(d) The beach.

3. What is Dr Wilbur determined to do about the boys' personalities?
(a) Calm them. They are too aggressive.
(b) Intergrate the male selves into their feminine body.
(c) Make them into women so they get along with everyone else.
(d) Eliminate the personalities.

4. Why does Vanessa try to get a good job?
(a) So she can support the other selves.
(b) So that Sybil can dress stylishly.
(c) So that she can support herself.
(d) She is tired of doing nothing.

5. What is the source of Hattie's mental state?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Physical Abuse.
(d) Her mother.

6. Who created the two male personalities?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Peggy Lou.
(c) Marcia.
(d) Vicky.

7. What does Dr. Wilbur see Willard's payment of Sybil's living expenses as?
(a) Willard should not pay Sybil anything.
(b) Past owed debts for ignoring Sybil.
(c) Payment from Hattie.
(d) Sybil is too young to live on her own so her father should help her.

8. When does young Sybil stop crying?
(a) Three and a half years old.
(b) Five years old.
(c) She never cries.
(d) Ten years old.

9. Why did Dr. Wilbur's new patients create the selves?
(a) So others feel sorry for them.
(b) The are also making up their personalities.
(c) To deal with harsh environments.
(d) To copy Sybil.

10. What do the selves have conflicting views about?
(a) God.
(b) Love and relationships.
(c) Rituals related to religion.
(d) Church, God, love, and rituals.

11. Who is the personality, Marjorie?
(a) A small vivacious brunette.
(b) She is not a personality.
(c) A mean young girl.
(d) Sybil's inner twin.

12. What horrible thoughts does Clara have?
(a) That Sybil should die.
(b) She wishes to hurt any man that Sybil gets too close to.
(c) She wants to kill Willard.
(d) She wants to cut herself.

13. By this point in the book, how many personalities has Dr. Wilbur met?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 14.
(d) 11.

14. What does Dr. Wilbur firmly believe that Willard must finally do?
(a) Respect his daughter.
(b) Become a part of Sybil's life.
(c) Take responsibility for his passiveness.
(d) Come to term with his feelings for Hattie.

15. What sort of bond formed between Sybil and her father?
(a) They have no relationship.
(b) A strong bond.
(c) A tenuous bond.
(d) A kind bond.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Sybil Ann take over the body?

2. What does Sybil do to her cat in her dream?

3. Why has Sybil created so many selves?

4. What does Dr. Wilbur hope will lay the foundation for integration?

5. Why does she sometimes resent the selves?

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