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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. Why has Sybil created so many selves?

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

3. What does Dr. Wilbur see Willard's payment of Sybil's living expenses as?

4. To Sybil, what has her body inadvertently become?

5. Who takes ascendancy of Sybil's body at the culmination of integration?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the boy personalities have such difficulty accepting they are a part of Sybil?

2. Some personalities feel that Sybil does not deserve to live. What theme is presented in the descent of these personalities?

3. What does Dr. Wilbur feel about meeting Sybil's father?

4. What does Willard do to atone for all the damage that Sybil has suffered through?

5. How does Sybil feel as she learns more and more about the personalities?

6. Why does Sybil cease to have a normal childhood?

7. How do the selves, at some points, work together?

8. By the time that Dr. Wilbur has met many of the selves, Sybil has met none of them. Why is Sybil so reluctant to meet the other selves?

9. After receiving medication from Dr. Wilbur, what does Sybil experience?

10. How does Dr. Willard pressure Willard to help Sybil?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several times throughout the book, different selves attempt to assert themselves over Sybil.

- How do Peggy Lou, Vanessa, Mary, and Marcia attempt to free themselves from Sybil?

- Why have the selves becomes impatient with Sybil?

Essay Topic 2

Sybil's relationship with Dr. Wilbur greatly changes both women's lives.

1. In what ways does Dr. Wilbur's relationship with Sybil go beyond a simple patient/doctor relationship?

2. How does Sybil's case change Dr. Wilbur's career?

3. Obviously, Dr Wilbur changes Sybil's life by helping her integrate her selves. But how does Dr. Wilbur's friendship change Sybil's life?

Essay Topic 3

The theme of good versus evil constantly surfaces throughout the novel. Why is Sybil convinced she is evil? How do the perceptions of mental illness during the 50's and 60's shape Sybil and other people's thoughts about mental illness.

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