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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 died from a heart attack and was unable to be a witness in Ed's case?

2. What did Ed have a tendency to do?

3. What was the admission charge to enter Ed's home before the auction?

4. What was the name of the police department that Vern Weber was from?

5. Ed was eliminated as a suspect in all the following cases except for which one?

Short Essay Questions

1. What judgment did a judge make about Ed during the trial?

2. What was the fate of Ed's car?

3. According to what Ed told his doctors, what would have stopped him from committing crimes?

4. How many murders was Ed associated with?

5. Describe the encounter between the governor-elect and Ed Gein.

6. What was the fate of the Gein house?

7. What was the overall attitude of the Plainfield people at the tourism Ed Gein brought to the town?

8. Why were people angry that Ed was going to serve time in a mental hospital?

9. Describe Ed's burial.

10. Describe Ed's death.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why weren't the people in Ed's town able to see what was going on? Was it a matter of ignorance, naivety or just the unwillingness to accept what was right in front of them?

Essay Topic 2

The autopsy notes on one of the bodies Ed created attributed the death to "comic book violence." Why is this true or untrue? Is there a comparable and more modern scenario?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Ed identified only with children? Why didn't he have any friends his own age? What influenced him to be this way?

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