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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. After listening to the tape of Peggy Lou, what does Sybil realize?

2. Prior to the meeting with Willard, what was Dr. Wilbur concerned about Sybil's personalities' stories?

3. What is the worst part of Sybil's history?

4. How many brother and sisters did Hattie have?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. While Dr. Wilbur and Sybil have several conversations about religion, Sybil is still hesitant to let religion in her life. Why is this?

2. How does Sybil feel about the selves taking over therapy?

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

4. Why does Sybil refuse to tell Ramon about her multiple personality disorder?

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

6. What does Dr. Wilbur finally get Sybil to admit?

7. In Sybil's refusal of Ramon, how does she treat him?

8. Why has Sybil seemed to have created Sid & Mike?

9. What are Sybil's multiple personalities for her? To other people they may not seem normal.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

a. Describe the origins of Sybil's mental dissociations.

b. What particular events cause Sybil's multiple personalities to form? Name three events from Sybil's childhood.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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