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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 did somebody once tease Ed about?

3. Why did Ed's mother want to have another child?

4. Who did Ed believe was responsible for his mother's death?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What vow did Augusta make for Ed?

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

3. How did neighbors generally view Ed?

4. How did Ed describe himself killing Bernice?

5. Why did Ed show Bob the preserved human heads?

6. What were Ed's feelings about Mary Hogan?

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

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

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

10. Describe Ed's father.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the influence Ed's family had on him. When Ed claimed he had no positive feelings about his father, how did this influence him? How was Ed influenced by his brother's existence? What type of family dynamic did Ed seem to have in his home, and why is this significant?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

One of the major conflicts involved in Ed's case was whether or not the police should exhume the bodies of those Ed claimed to have dug up. What do you think should have been done in this situation?

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