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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 Ted is released on bail and moves back to Seattle, Ann tries to get him to do what?

2. Whom does the author meet at a Crisis Clinic in 1971?

3. When Ted is apprehended by police, what kind of vehicle is he driving?

4. At what local bar is college-student Brenda Carol Ball last seen talking with a handsome man?

5. Students on the same campus as missing student Susan Elaine Rancourt report being approached by a man with what particular attribute?

Short Essay Questions

1. During the 1974 crime wave described by the author, all the girls that have gone missing, been attacked, or been found dead have what similar characteristics?

2. Ann knows that Meg is frightened without Ted. What does Ann do with this knowledge?

3. Why does Ted's mother move with Ted across the country in 1950 to live in Seattle, Washington?

4. Why is Ted put into solitary confinement?

5. Why don't the authorities immediately arrest Ted when Meg reveals her suspicions?

6. What do Stephanie and Meg have in common?

7. Linda Ann Healy is a part-time weather forecaster. When she doesn't show up for work and there is no evidence she returned home the previous night, detectives are called into the case. What do they discover?

8. When Ted is placed in Pitikin County Jail, he refers to it as a "Mickey Mouse operation". Why does he use this term?

9. After the murders stop in Utah, how and where do they restart?

10. At what point in Ted's life do the chapters about Ted escaping from Garfield County Jail and running away from the law begin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Ted's relationship between:

a) The women he assaults and Stephanie.

b) Meg and Stephanie.

c) Ann and Meg.

Essay Topic 2

When animals are caged for long periods of time, they can become angrier or more docile. Draw an analogy between Ted and an animal that has become trapped in a cage. When does Ted seem resigned? When does he seem frustrated or enraged?

Essay Topic 3

Ann makes excuses for Ted's sociopathic behavior throughout the book, most notably explaining her theory that he has three different personalities. From your perspective as someone who has read the book, how do you feel her theory might have colored the way she told Ted's story? Do you think it is possible for a person in Ann's position to provide readers with a truly objective look at someone like Ted Bundy?

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