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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 stopping Sybil's final integration from happening?

2. Where do the boys think that their penis is?

3. What does Mike dislike about looking like a woman?

4. Who stops Sybil's suicide attempt?

5. How many cases of multiple personality disorder has the doctor treated since Sybil?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Sybil's dream about kittens startle her?

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

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

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

6. What is interesting to learn about the selves and their views of religion?

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

8. What makes Marcia break down and cry?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, Sybil cannot understand why she must be integrated with all the selves.

1. Why must each self become fully integrated with Sybil?

2. How does Dr. Wilbur work to integrate each personality?

3. Why does she need the selves?

4. How is the creation of the different personalities different from the way other "normal" people handle trauma in their lives.

Essay Topic 2

How does Hattie use sex to manipulate the following people:

Sybil?

Willard?

Children in the neighborhood?

Her father?

Essay Topic 3

1. As Sybil discovers more about her personalities, two selves in particular wish for Sybil to commit suicide. What two selves are they?

2. Why do these two personalities feel hatred towards Sybil?

3. How do they eventually come to terms with their negative feelings toward Sybil?

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