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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. How many people does Ann tell Ted that the Seattle police department are investigating for the recent crimes?

2. Despite her doubts about him, Meg agrees to do what with Ted in December, 1975?

3. After University of Washington student Georgann Hawkins disappears, two campus coeds recall seeing a man with what characteristic?

4. Ted and Stephanie meet at what institute of higher education?

5. After he is "on the run", Ted eventually winds up where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ted pulled over by a policeman while driving in Salt Lake City? What are the results of this incident?

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

3. Why is Ted put into solitary confinement?

4. Ted Bundy is convicted of aggravated kidnapping in early January 1976. He is sent to jail and writes many letters to Ann. What are the themes of most of those letters?

5. Why does Ted believe he is valued among the other prisoners at Utah State Prison?

6. Why does the author believe that Ted breaks off his engagement with Stephanie?

7. 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?

8. After the murders stop in Utah, how and where do they restart?

9. How does the author describe Ted's persona during high school and into his early college years?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ted Bundy had no trouble getting women to admire him, including while he was in prison. What characteristics do you believe a woman would have to possess in order to find him attractive despite his being on Death Row as a convicted serial killer? Do you think that Ted was capable of having a romantic relationship in his life? Why or why not?

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

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.

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