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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. What was Wayne Williams sentence?
(a) The death penalty.
(b) Two consecutive life terms.
(c) Probation.
(d) Twenty -five years.

2. What did Dr. Burgess create in Chapter 6 in order to analyze felon interviews?
(a) A fifty-seven page interview instrument.
(b) A personality quiz.
(c) A serial killer profile.
(d) A video analysis program.

3. In Chapter 9, what cases were high priority to Douglas?
(a) Active rape-murder cases with potential loss of life.
(b) Cold cases.
(c) High profile cases.
(d) Cases involving more than ten victims.

4. Who created the Applied Criminal Psychology course in 1972?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Hoover.
(c) The President.
(d) Howard Teten.

5. In Chapter 6, to whom did Douglas compare Manson's upbringing?
(a) His own.
(b) Kemper's upbringing.
(c) Bundy's upbringing.
(d) His father's upbringing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object allowed Douglas to enter prisons with ease in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 9, what cases were the least important to Douglas?

3. What did the prosecutor ask Douglas' opinion about during Wayne Williams' trial?

4. What serial killer did Douglas study while in Quantico in Chapter 5?

5. In what year did the ATKID killer attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Douglas' opinion of the interview study at the conclusion of the study.

2. What led to the FBI's new appreciation of profiling?

3. Why was BSU under Hoover considered an unimportant unit?

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

5. Describe the "Trailside Killer" and what characteristic his victim noticed.

6. What childhood story of Douglas' led to the term "everybody has a rock?" When did Douglas use the term again in Chapter 10?

7. What crime did Russell Odom and Clay Lawson commit, and why did Douglas claim they were not criminally insane?

8. What crime was Kemper in prison for when Douglas interviewed him, and what was Douglas' opinion about Kemper?

9. What was published in the book "Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives"?

10. Describe the program that Douglas formalized with Dr. Ann Burgess.

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