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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 was the name of Bernice's son?

2. What rendered Ed's mother helpless?

3. What was the name of the second man who is engaged in the argument?

4. What part of Mary Hogan's body was found in Ed's house?

5. What happened to the first man who gets into an argument with the mob?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the evidence existing when Mary Hogan went missing.

2. What early traits in his Ed's relationship with his mother are symptomatic of schizophrenia?

3. What vow did Augusta make for Ed?

4. What did Ed do to Mary Hogan's face and why?

5. Describe Ed's life at the time his father died in 1940.

6. Describe the time in Ed's life in which he goes into full retreat from the world.

7. Describe Eleanor Adams and Ed's experience with her.

8. How did neighbors generally view Ed?

9. How does Ed describe the other women who play a role in his life?

10. In Ed's small town, how might it be possible for him to have committed murders?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many people in Ed's town were willing to accept that he was a murderer, but not a grave robber. Why do you think this was so? Do you think people react in a similar way today?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Ed chose the victims that he did? How did his mother influence the decisions he made in which people to kill or which bodies to dig up? Why is this significant?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the media attention that Ed Gein's case received. Why was the media so interested? What effect did the media have on Ed's town? Was this attention good or bad?

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