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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. The BSU decided to study people who got __________ satisfaction from killing, raping, and molesting people.
(a) Emotional.
(b) Public.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Physical.

2. What is the term that Ressler later coined in order to describe the people who sought out satisfaction from killing?
(a) Mental killer.
(b) Serial killer.
(c) Scary killer.
(d) Big killer.

3. What does Ressler find to have been forced into some of the wounds on Terry's body?
(a) Oil.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Feces.

4. In what city area did Ressler grow up, according to the details in the book?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Boston.

5. What did Ressler have trouble communicating to other agents in the field because of his background?
(a) Information.
(b) Colors.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Strategies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would lure unsuspecting women with his charm and then kill and mutilate them?

2. What was the sentence for John when he was convicted of his crimes?

3. What had been stolen from the family that was the next to suffer in the serial killing spree?

4. What was the job of the serial killer Gerald Schaefer?

5. After talking to ________, many FBI agents would develop physical symptoms that caused them even more pain and anxiety.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the killer try to convey in the messages that he left after the killings?

2. What are some of the characteristics of an organized killer, according to Ressler?

3. What is the question that Ressler wrestled with when talking to murderers?

4. What does Ressler decide to do when he learns about the new murder case and its possible connection to other unsolved cases?

5. What does Ressler find out about the way that serial killers seem to view life as they grow up?

6. What does Ressler feel a disorganized killer might use when they are going to commit a crime?

7. Why did Ressler see the first murder in this section as not being an ordinary murder?

8. Why did Ressler come up with the terms 'organized' and 'disorganized' when it came to describing killers?

9. What does the case of John Joubert IV reveal about his drive to kill?

10. What did the young Ressler do in response to the murder cases he learned about as a child?

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