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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 did the police find when they finally caught up to Duane, which caused Ressler to be brought into the case?

2. Edmund Kemper, known as the __________ killer, was also interviewed by Ressler during the seminar.

3. What is one of the books that Ressler helped with in order to ensure its truthfulness?

4. What was the name of the other woman who was at the house in addition to the woman with the daughter?

5. Who began to watch Gacy, which caused him to become nervous and to take drugs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would Gacy do with his gay male victims, according to police reports?

2. How do criminals attempt to prevent police officers from finding out what they have done and their identity?

3. Who does Ressler arrange to have available during a seminar for his new crime fighting unit?

4. What was Glatman's claim about the women whom he eventually killed?

5. What was difficult about law enforcement agencies before the 1980s?

6. Why was one of the suspects in the Bozeman, Montana, case let go, even though he fit the profile?

7. What happened during a seminar that Ressler was giving on Rissell?

8. Whom did Ressler hope to educate in terms of dealing with serial killers properly?

9. Why are some killers able to pass polygraph tests, even though they are guilty of their crimes?

10. What are stranger crimes which seemed to be on the rise after 1980?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For a time, it was difficult to communicate crime information between agencies, leading to slower case resolution.

Part 1: Why do you think inter-agency cooperation wasn't considered earlier?

Part 2: How do you think agencies communicate today?

Part 3: What might happen to a killer if there were no communication between agencies?

Essay Topic 2

Ressler notices in the case of the newspaper boy killings that the murderer sliced off skin to hide bite marks.

Part 1: Do you think that slicing away bite marks is the sign of an intelligent killer?

Part 2: How do you think Ressler was able to determine the slices were meant to hide evidence?

Part 3: Why do you think a person would try to remove evidence from a body, though this also creates evidence?

Essay Topic 3

Organized and disorganized killers were described by Ressler, in order to help people without psychology backgrounds understand serial killers.

Part 1: Do you think the terms organized and disorganized are appropriate?

Part 2: How do you think agents could be trained in the art of profiling without having to obtain a psychology degree?

Part 3: Why do you think Ressler decided that organized and disorganized killers were the only two categories?

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