2. What does Dr. Wilbur realize?
(a) Sybil is lying about Peggy.
(b) Sybil is very tiresome.
(c) Her original diagnosis of dual personality was correct.
(d) She cannot treat Sybil.

3. In addition to Sybil, who else did the author interview?
(a) Sybil's father.
(b) Sybil's mother.
(c) Dr. Wilbur.
(d) Sybil's friend Teddy.

4. What does the town think of Hattie?
(a) Many people think she is odd.
(b) She is a wonderful mother.
(c) People enjoy Hattie.
(d) She is a good wife.

5. What is her father's name?
(a) Will Dorsett.
(b) Willard Dorsett.
(c) William Dorsett.
(d) Wilbur Dorsett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hattie unable to accept?

2. When does Sybil return to her own body?

3. What causes Sybil to cancel her appointment with Dr. Wilbur?

4. Outwardly, how does Sybil appear?

5. What does Hattie to do the neighbor's bushes?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the general population discusses mental disorders, they often judge people before they know all the facts about their particular disorder, or situation. Why is does the author clearly ask the reader to hold off judgment of Sybil in the book's Preface?

2. What parts of Sybil's life play into her disorder?

3. As the novel begins, where does the reader find Sybil Isabel Dorsett?

4. To the rest of the world what does Sybil seem to be?

5. How does Sybil return to her body and come back into knowledge about what has been happening to her?

6. What happens to Hattie when the Depression hits the United States?

7. As therapy escalates, how does Sybil feel about her life?

8. What has Dr. Wilbur always assumed about Hattie?

9. Why does Sybil choose to go home and be around her abrasive parents, after she has been going to college?

10. Why must Sybil plead mental incompetence in a court of law?

(see the answer keys)

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