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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. Where does Ann meets Ted in 1973?

2. In the courtroom, Carol DaRonch is unnerved by what characteristic of Ted's?

3. The author of the book suggests that Ted has how many personalities?

4. Who is Ted dating while he is secretly engaged to another girl?

5. Ted is arrested in Salt Lake City, Utah, by a patrolman who stops Ted because why?

Short Essay Questions

1. What items does Meg tell the police that she found in her and Ted's house?

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

3. Ann knows that Meg is frightened without Ted. What does Ann do with this knowledge?

4. How does Ted manage to escape from the Garfield County Jail?

5. After being transferred to the Garfield County Jail, Ted makes a few requests to the judge and receives what items and privileges?

6. How does Ted manage to escape from the law library in Aspen?

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

8. 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?

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

10. When the author first meets Ted while working with him in 1971, what does she think of him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ted's signature in his letters to Ann is always "ted". Analyze what this could be interpreted as meaning about his character, about his relationship with Ann and about his feelings.

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

Rule suggests in her book that despite his infamy for heinous acts, Bundy actually performed some heroic acts in his life. What examples of heroic acts were given in the book, and do you agree that they were heroic? How does this affect your opinion of Bundy?

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