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CHAPTER 2
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following serial killers claimed that he had multiple personalities as his
defense for his murders?
a. Edmund Kemper
b. Charles Albright
c. Kenneth Bianchi
d. Ted Bundy
2. Lycanthropy refers to _____.
a. sacrificing of small animals to ward off evil spirits
b. the stoning of people believed to be possessed by evil spirits
c. the transformation of human beings into wolves
d. medical procedure to exorcise evil spirits
3. “Trephining” refers to _____.
a. a medical operation on the skull
b. dissecting a corpse
c. removal of fingers as a form of punishment
d. transforming oneself from a witch into an animal
4. In the 16th century, _____ wrote that violent, wicked men may have the opportunity
to return after death as an animal, usually a wolf.
a. Aristotle
b. Homer
c. Paracelsus
d. Farenheit
5. The purpose of the human-to-wolf transformation was the killing of humans,
especially _____.
a. women
b. men
c. the elderly
d. children
6. Peter Stubb/Stump was a _____.
a. vampire
b. werewolf
c. ghoul
d. witch
7. The family of this 17th-century killer robbed, murdered, and ate unsuspecting
travelers.
a. Sawney Beane
b. Peter Stubb
c. Vlad Tepes
d. Edmund Kemper
8. This 15th century figure was known as “Drakul” (Dragon).He was particularly known
to be a vicious and depraved sadist who enjoyed torturing and murdering peasants who
lived within his jurisdiction.
a. Ivan the Great
b. Jack the Ripper
c. Bram Stoker
d. Vlad Tepes
9. A primary difference between vampires and werewolves was believed to be that
vampires _____.
a. could never really be destroyed
b. were sexually involved with their victims
c. killed only women
d. usually kill in groups whereas werewolves hunt alone
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10. It is believed this 15th-century killer murdered several hundred children, drank their
blood and engaged in necrophilia, sometimes having the heads of his child victims stuck
on upright rods.
a. Sawney Beane
b. Gilles de Rais
c. Peter Stubb
d. Vlad Tepes
11. This 1486 text was the first encyclopedia of demonology.
a. Hammer of the Gods
b. Novus Ordo Seclorum
c. Malleus Maleficarum
d. Necronomicon
12. This is another name for golem.
a. zombie
b. vampire
c. robot
d. mental defect
13. Golem syndrome refers to _____.
a. persons capable of murdering without remorse or feelings for the victim
b. persons who have the ability to become vampires, werewolves, and zombies
depending upon their appetites
c. how murder victims return from the dead to seek revenge
d. the tree monsters in lord of the rings
14. The Satanic Bible was written by _____.
a. Gore Vidal
b. David Abrahamsen
c. Gilles de Rais
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d. Anton LaVey
15. Anton LaVey was _____.
a. the earliest Dracula recorded in Germany
b. founder of voodoo in America
c. also known as the angel of death
d. founder of the Church of Satan
16. In the late 1980s the voodoo cult in Matamoros, Mexico, was heavily involved in
_____.
a. prostitution
b. drug smuggling
c. child pornography
d. collecting body parts to use as spells to change men into animals
17. Both these and vampire cults have links to satanic and/or cult murders.
a. Saturn death cults
b. Jupiter II death cults
c. Mars death cults
d. Terran death cults
18. How many serial murder cases are linked directly to Satanic worship or cult-related
activities?
a. About half
b. 23 percent
c. less than 5 percent
d. None
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19. In this 1984 case in California, seven people were accused of the ritualistic torture of
children. After the longest trial in the U.S. history, the key suspects were acquitted.
a. the Manhattan Beach preschool case
b. the Annewakee preschool case
c. the McMartin preschool case
d. the Matamoros preschool case
20. What did Finkelhor conclude in his book Nursery Crimes?
a. Daycare centers do not have abnormally high rates of abuse.
b. Daycare centers have abnormally high rates of abuse.
c. There is no abuse at all in daycare centers.
d. Some daycare centers are set up just to abuse children.
21. Most serial murderers involved in cult-related killings are found to be _____.
a. self-styled Satanists
b. officers in the Church of Satan
c. advanced in their Satanic work
d. tattooed with the number 666
22. A litmus test for cult organizations is that _____ is/are part of the structure.
a. abuse
b. bake sales
c. secrecy
d. rumors
23. This idea is intangible and unmeasurable and is often used as a misnomer for
inappropriate behavior.
a. good
b. insanity
c. guilt
d. evil
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24. Which of the following crimes would most likely be a “crime of passion?”
a. mass murder of all adults and children having lunch at McDonalds
b. serial murder of children who are found alone in parks
c. murdering a female teller while robbing a bank
d. murdering your ex-spouse
25. Who was Josef Mengele?
a. Argentina’s most prolific serial killer
b. a notorious guard in Auschwitz who killed hundreds of people
c. an aspiring geneticist who conducted identical twin research for the
Nazis
d. the only Jew to survive the Nazi attack on the Warsaw Ghetto
26. In each of the cases of this killer, the victim‘s breasts had been mutilated and cut off
with a knife or piano wire.
a. Charles Manson
b. Robin Gecht
c. John Gacy
d. Josef Mengele
27. How are evil people best defined according to M. Scott Peck?
a. by the “consistency of their sins”
b. by the illegality of their actions
c. as golems
d. as Satan worshippers
28. According to Peck, who are “people of the lie?”
a. thieves
b. murderers
c. evil people
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d. liars
29. What may well be the epitome of narcissism?
a. total domination of oneself
b. eventual act of self-destruction
c. total domination of others
d. sum total of personality disorders
30. This killer was a college graduate and once worked as a fishing guide and security
guard. He later became a police officer who had a fantasy for taking young women into
the woods and hanging them.
a. Harold Shipman
b. Gerard Schaefer
c. Orville Majors
d. Martin Bryant
TRUE/FALSE
1. Folklore pertaining to zombies, werewolves, vampires, etc., is found among few
cultures.
2. “Anthropophagy” refers to revulsion at eating human flesh.
3. Satanic cults do not provide a large population of serial killers.
4. The nature and definition of “evil” is not universal and agreed upon.
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5. Erich Fromm considered evil a process and not a state.
COMPLETION
1. In many past cultures, and in some modern ones, _____ was
generally viewed as a distinct form of possession, the controlling of a human by
an evil spirit.
2. A function of the early European _____ was to find ways to eradicate the
problems attributed to witchcraft and sorcery.
3. Satanic cults in the United States appear to have attracted a growing number
of followers interested in the worship of _____.
4. The quest for power and control over the lives of others is exemplified by the case of
_____, a physician and geneticist recruited into the Nazi ranks to direct the processing
of concentration camp prisoners at Birkenau and Auschwitz during World War II.
5. The notion of evil becomes complicated by the generally accepted belief that
those who commit sins can _____ and virtually turn their lives around.
ESSAY QUESTIONS
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1. Discuss why and how horror and “splatter” films remind us that evil, dangerous
beings reside in our communities. Why do we need to be reminded?
2. What is a witch hunt? Describe and discuss a medieval witch hunt and a modern
witch hunt.
3. Why is the notion of evil so difficult to define? How do scholars try to define it? How
do you define it? Does your definition agree with those of the scholars? Why or why
not?