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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 does Dr. Wilbur think Peggy is to Sybil?
2. For avid readers, what type of book is this?
3. Does the author feel as though the story of Sybil is a moving tale?
4. What is the name of the author of the book?
5. What word most accurately describes Sybil's feelings towards the cohabitant nature of the selves and herself in one body?
Short Essay Questions
1. What has Dr. Wilbur always assumed about Hattie?
2. Where does Sybil meet Dr. Wilbur?
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. Why must Sybil plead mental incompetence in a court of law?
5. What parts of Sybil's life play into her disorder?
6. Why does Sybil choose to go home and be around her abrasive parents, after she has been going to college?
7. As far as Sybil's treatment is concerned, what do Sybil's parents mostly question her about?
8. To the rest of the world what does Sybil seem to be?
9. Sybil catches her parents having sex, and it scares her. Why does this severely scar Sybil?
10. What brings on the appearance of Peggy Lou, the first personality to appear?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Hattie use sex to manipulate the following people:
Sybil?
Willard?
Children in the neighborhood?
Her father?
Essay Topic 2
First impressions are quickly shattered through the novel.
a. Describe Dr. Wilbur's first impression of Hattie and Willard Dorsett.
b. How do the Dorsett's hide their cruelty and indifference towards Sybil from other people?
c. How can money and social standing protect people who commit evil acts?
Essay Topic 3
1. Research the psychological and psychiatric methods of the 1950s.
2. How do these methods match or differ from the method Dr Wilbur uses to diagnosis and treat Sybil?
3. Analyze Dr. Wilbur's diagnosis treatment of Sybil. Describe how the doctor discovers Sybil's multiple personalities.
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