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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. Who was the woman with a daughter that lived at the house Duane visited?

2. What was the name of the black woman who was missing, though Ressler presumed that she was dead, too?

3. What was the name of the man who was killing women in England? The Yorkshire _________.

4. Why did John Gacy kill a homosexual man, according to his confession?

5. Edmund Kemper, known as the __________ killer, was also interviewed by Ressler during the seminar.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Duane and his legal team want the sentence commuted?

2. What did Diane wake up to in the middle of the night after hanging out with friends?

3. Whom did Ressler hope to educate in terms of dealing with serial killers properly?

4. What are stranger crimes which seemed to be on the rise after 1980?

5. What did Ressler point out to Yorkshire police when he listened to the tape of the killer?

6. What did police find when they investigated Gacy's home more closely?

7. How would Harvey Glatman find his victims, according to the book?

8. What happened during a seminar that Ressler was giving on Rissell?

9. What was difficult about law enforcement agencies before the 1980s?

10. What were some of the qualities of Gacy that made him appear to be the least likely person to kill anyone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Serial killers often admit to their crimes once they are caught.

Part 1: Do you think some serial killers want to be caught by police?

Part 2: How do you think serial killers might increase their chances of being caught?

Part 3: What would it mean to a serial killer to not be caught by police?

Essay Topic 2

Ressler notices in the case of the newspaper boy killings that the murderer sliced off skin to hide bite marks.

Part 1: Do you think that slicing away bite marks is the sign of an intelligent killer?

Part 2: How do you think Ressler was able to determine the slices were meant to hide evidence?

Part 3: Why do you think a person would try to remove evidence from a body, though this also creates evidence?

Essay Topic 3

In many of Ressler's cases, his profiling details are precise and they lead officials to the murderer.

Part 1: Why do you think serial killers have certain profiles and characteristics?

Part 2: Do you think it should be simple to categorize killers?

Part 3: How do you think a person can fully understand the thoughts of a murderer without being one?

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