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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. How do Sybil's parents treat Dr. Wilbur?
(a) They belittle the doctor to Sybil.
(b) They greatly respect her.
(c) They act as though she does not exist.
(d) Her parents refuse to believe that she is seeing a therapist.

2. Dr. Wilbur is convinced that the multiple personalities are all results of ______________.
(a) Her father's neglect.
(b) Always abuse.
(c) Hysteria.
(d) Crazy people.

3. How many years of her life has she lost?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 2 years.

4. Why does Hattie call her daughter Peggy Lou or Peggy Ann?
(a) She wishes Sybil was someone else.
(b) She never liked the name Sybil.
(c) She forgets Sybil's name.
(d) She had another daughter named Peggy.

5. How many days have disappeared without her knowledge?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 7 days.
(d) 1 year.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the author able to gain access to the files of Dr. Wilbur?

2. What is Sybil to the other selves?

3. What does the town think of Hattie?

4. How does Hattie take her behavior too far?

5. When does Sybil return to her own body?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the personality of Vicky.

7. Describe Peggy Lou and how she is different from Sybil.

8. How do Sybil's parents question the validity of Dr. Wilbur's practice?

9. 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?

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

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