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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. In what city did the ATKID killer strike?
(a) New York.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Memphis.

2. Where was Douglas born?
(a) Annapolis.
(b) Boston.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Orlando.

3. What was the trigger that set off Monte Ralph Rissell's serial raping?
(a) His mother died.
(b) His girlfriend broke up with him.
(c) He lost his job.
(d) There was no trigger.

4. Where did the police place the bloody rock in the interrogation room at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) In his hand.
(b) Where the suspect had to turn his head to view it.
(c) Above the suspect.
(d) In front of the suspect.

5. In Chapter 10, Douglas cited a murder case from Rome, Georgia, where a 12 year old was murdered. How was she killed?
(a) Gun shot.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Blunt force trauma.
(d) Strangulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Douglas receive grant money from for his felon interviews?

2. At the end of the prison interview study, what did Douglas decide the study had accomplished?

3. Why did Douglas decide that Russell Odom and Clay Lawson were not criminally insane?

4. Who created the Applied Criminal Psychology course in 1972?

5. In Chapter 9, what cases were high priority to Douglas?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the crimes of David Berkowitz. Include his choice of victims, his nickname (if he had one), and why Douglas believed he committed his crimes.

2. Describe Douglas' life in Milwaukee.

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

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

5. Describe Douglas' childhood.

6. What was the first crime Kemper committed, and where was he sent as punishment?

7. List some of the Killers that Douglas and Ressler interviewed in Chapter 7.

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

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

10. Describe the metaphor "betting on raindrops rolling down the window."

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