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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dr. Burgess create in Chapter 6 in order to analyze felon interviews?
(a) A personality quiz.
(b) A fifty-seven page interview instrument.
(c) A video analysis program.
(d) A serial killer profile.

2. In Chapter 9, what cases were high priority to Douglas?
(a) Active rape-murder cases with potential loss of life.
(b) Cases involving more than ten victims.
(c) Cold cases.
(d) High profile cases.

3. Who did Manson murder?
(a) No one.
(b) Ten people.
(c) Three children.
(d) Sharon Tate.

4. In Chapter 6, to whom did Douglas compare Manson's upbringing?
(a) Kemper's upbringing.
(b) His own.
(c) His father's upbringing.
(d) Bundy's upbringing.

5. What name did the media and police give Kemper?
(a) The co-ed killer.
(b) The wacky radical.
(c) Son of sam.
(d) The night stalker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas and Hazelwood believed that the ATKID killer murders were NOT affiliated with which group?

2. What was a common theme in the ATKID killer's victims?

3. In Chapter 8, what case did Douglas use to show how profiling narrows the suspect list?

4. How many teachers worked with the BSU in 1977?

5. In Chapter 4, what terrifying experience happened to Douglas?

Short Essay Questions

1. When is the FBI allowed to become involved in murder cases?

2. What childhood story of Douglas' led to the term "everybody has a rock?" When did Douglas use the term again in Chapter 10?

3. Describe Wayne Williams' murders. What name did the police give him?

4. Describes what happened when a murder suspect in Chapter 10 saw a bloody rock during an interrogation.

5. What crime was Kemper in prison for when Douglas interviewed him, and what was Douglas' opinion about Kemper?

6. Describe William Heirens. Include why he committed his crime and what he accomplished in prison.

7. Describe the crimes of Richard Speck. Include his choice of victims, his nickname (if he had one), and his prison sentence.

8. What was the link between all the murders Wayne Williams committed?

9. Describe the road schools where Douglas taught.

10. What led to the FBI's new appreciation of profiling?

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