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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. What is the root cause of Sybil's adult psychosis?

2. What is the name of the author of the book?

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

4. What does Sybil realize about her time with Dr. Wilbur?

5. What is currently unclear to Dr. Wilbur?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Sybil once Dr. Wilbur informs her she has multiple personality disorder?

3. What does Dr. Wilbur decide she must understand about Sybil's early life to cure her.

4. How does Dr Wilbur make Sybil feel better about her condition?

5. As far as Sybil's treatment is concerned, what do Sybil's parents mostly question her about?

6. Sybil catches her parents having sex, and it scares her. Why does this severely scar Sybil?

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

8. What brings on the appearance of Peggy Lou, the first personality to appear?

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

10. Who is the author of the book and how does she come to write Sybil's book? As the author writes, what tone does she immediately take for the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sybil creates Sid & Mike to represent the only men she has ever known.

-Describe Sid & Mike.

- How do the boys change as they are aged by Dr. Wilbur.

- Why are Sid & Mike so concerned with retaining their manhood?

-How do they resemble the demasculinization of Sybil's father?

Essay Topic 2

The theme of fear is ever present in the book because Sybil holds a constant fear of her life and other people in it.

1. Describe three occasions when Sybil allows fear to overcome her.

2. Who embodies the essence of Sybil's fear of rejection?

Essay Topic 3

Although Hattie Dorsett does most of the torture towards Sybil, her father and grandmother are just as responsible for Sybil's condition.

1. How does passivity of Willard harm Sybil?

2. How does passivity of her grandmother harm Sybil?

3. How does the passivity of Sybil's neighbors and friends harm Sybil?

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