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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 happens to Buzzy Ware, Ted's attorney?
2. The author of the book suggests that Ted has how many personalities?
3. Ted and Stephanie meet at what institute of higher education?
4. What technique does the author use to quickly provide Ted's personal history and situation?
5. On July 14, 1974, 23-year-old Janice Ott (who later disappeared) helped a man whom witnesses say introduced himself with what name?
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. Why is Ted put into solitary confinement?
3. After Ted is caught by officials following his escape from the law library in Aspen, what are three things that happen that throw him into a tailspin of depression and anxiety?
4. What are the three distinct personalities Ann believes Ted possesses?
5. What items does Meg tell the police that she found in her and Ted's house?
6. After the disappearances of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund, why does Ann begin to suspect that her friend, Ted Bundy, could be the man who has been abducting and murdering young women?
7. How does Ted manage to escape from the Garfield County Jail?
8. How does Ted manage to escape from the law library in Aspen?
9. Ted is given three months' worth of psychiatric tests. Why does he seem to be confident about the outcome of those tests?
10. How does a Seattle-based psychiatrist describe the likely killer of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a 1-2 page essay about one of these topics:
a) How Ann's relationship with Ted changes versus how it stays the same over the course of her getting to know him.
b) How Meg's relationship with Ted changes versus how it stays the same over the course of their time together.
c) How Ted's mother's relationship with her son changes versus how it stays the same over the course of his lifetime.
Essay Topic 2
Make a detailed timeline of all the murders, abductions and attempted abductions attributed to Ted Bundy starting with Caryn Campbell. For each individual entry, add as many details about the case as possible. What do they seem to have in common aside from the fact that most of the women looked like Stephanie and were about the same age? Can you find any other commonalities?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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