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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 second man who is engaged in the argument?

2. What was the name of the person who spent time hunting and going to baseball games with Ed?

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

4. In which state did the argument between the two men and the mob take place?

5. Why did Ed want to hurt Mary?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ed describe himself killing Bernice?

2. Describe Ed's father.

3. What was Ed initially arraigned for and why?

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

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

6. Describe Augusta's death.

7. Describe the incident that Ed recalls about walking into a forbidden area of his parent's shop.

8. What type of media coverage was typical of the Ed Gein case?

9. What was interesting about the autopsy notes on Bernice's body?

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

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

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?

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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