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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. When Ann is in the hospital in November, 1974, her mother tells her that she received a call from whom?

2. After visiting Ted, Ann continues her communications with Ted through what means?

3. For the most part, what narrative perspective is this book written in?

4. Ted has an interest in politics. Which party does he join?

5. What is a shared characteristic of Ted's early victims?

Short Essay Questions

1. At what point in Ted's life do the chapters about Ted escaping from Garfield County Jail and running away from the law begin?

2. Ted is given three months' worth of psychiatric tests. Why does he seem to be confident about the outcome of those tests?

3. Linda Ann Healy is a part-time weather forecaster. When she doesn't show up for work and there is no evidence she returned home the previous night, detectives are called into the case. What do they discover?

4. How does a Seattle-based psychiatrist describe the likely killer of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund?

5. When Ted is placed in Pitikin County Jail, he refers to it as a "Mickey Mouse operation". Why does he use this term?

6. Which supporters of Ted try to provide alibis for him?

7. After Ted is released on bail in November of 1975, what does he do?

8. Why don't the authorities immediately arrest Ted when Meg reveals her suspicions?

9. The last time 15-year-old Katherine Merry Devine was seen alive, she was doing what?

10. While Ted is employed by the City of Seattle's Crime Prevention Advisory Commission, he works on what law?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When animals are caged for long periods of time, they can become angrier or more docile. Draw an analogy between Ted and an animal that has become trapped in a cage. When does Ted seem resigned? When does he seem frustrated or enraged?

Essay Topic 2

The theme of manipulation repeats itself again and again through "The Stranger Beside Me". Discuss ways that people and events are manipulated during the following scenes/occurrences:

a) When Ted proposes to Carol Ann Boone in court.

b) When Ted continually asks for better food and law library access while imprisoned.

c) Ted's correspondence with Ann over the years.

d) The author and the reader.

Essay Topic 3

Imagine if Ted Bundy had written his own book. What do you think it would have been titled? How would he choose to describe his killings and attacks? What types of storytelling techniques do you think he would employ?

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