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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 the person who spent time hunting and going to baseball games with Ed?

2. What was Ed known around his neighborhood for?

3. What did Ed often stop to listen for?

4. What role did Ed's mother play in the home?

5. What was the name of Ed's brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ed become a suspect in Bernice's death?

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

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

4. Describe the circumstances surrounding Bernice's death.

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

6. What did police expect to find in Augusta's room and what was actually found there?

7. Describe the circumstances of the body parts found in Ed's house.

8. Describe the death of Ed's brother, Henry.

9. What did the town of Plainfield, WI become associated with as a result of Ed Gein?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Why did Ed murder people and dig graves? What influenced him to commit such crimes? Is he the only one to blame?

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