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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Wilbur give Sybil?
(a) Hope that she will find some relief.
(b) Faith in herself.
(c) Time away from her parents.
(d) A chance to survive.

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

3. What has changed about Hattie?
(a) She dotes on her husband.
(b) She dotes on Sybil.
(c) She becomes catatonic and no longer bothers Sybil.
(d) She becomes loving.

4. How does Sybil get an appointment with a psychiatrist?
(a) The doctor finds her.
(b) She is never allowed to see a psychiarist.
(c) A family doctor gives her a referral.
(d) She walks into Dr Wilbur's office.

5. What does Vanessa dislike about her (Sybil's) parents having sex?
(a) That they are hurting one another.
(b) She thinks it is distasteful.
(c) They preach against intercourse.
(d) The audacity of their actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Sybil angry with her mother?

2. What can Dr. Wilbur sense?

3. What do the doctor and patient discuss on the first day?

4. How old is Sybil in the summer of 1945?

5. How many years of her life has she lost?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Sybil's feelings concerning her meetings with Dr. Wilbur.

2. Why do Sybil and Dr. Wilbur's sessions suddenly stop?

3. 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?

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

5. What is surprising about Willard?

6. What type of case is Sybil's? Why is the author so excited to report on Sybil's case?

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

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

9. How does Sybil cope with difficult things that happen in her life?

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

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