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CHAPTER FIVE
QUESTIONS
1. Mass murder is defined then as the killing of three or more persons at a single location with
no _______________ between the killings.
a. deliberation
b. cooling off period
c. sleep
d. other acts of violence
2. The term _______________ is often used to describe an individual who sets out, typically
with an arsenal of guns, to kill as many people as he can, sometimes randomly and
sometimes those against whom he has a grievance.
a. disciple killer
b. mass murderer
c. rampage killer
d. set-and-run killer
3. This type of killer is preoccupied with weapons, desires to “teach the world a lesson," and to
exact revenge to individuals or systems which have “done him wrong.”
a. pseudocommando
b. disciple killer
c. school shooter
d. serial killer
4. Which of the following individuals are likely examples of “family annihilators?”
a. Charles Manson
b. Ted Bundy
c. Eric Harris
d. Andrea Yates
5. A former employees of a company who had been dismissed, and then retaliated by going to
the place where he once worked and killing former fellow employees is best referred to as
a(n)
a. disgruntled employee
b. bully
c. isolated and rejected schizoid
d. fantasizing dreamer
6. Although the average age of murderers in general is _____ years, a notable exception
exists with “workplace avengers”, where the average age is _____ years.
a. 29, 38
b. 38, 29
c. 18, 40
d. 40, 18
7. Most pseudocommando killers and workplace avengers are _______________.
a. Hispanic males
b. White males
c. African-American males
d. none of the above
8. This type of killer might plant a bomb in a building or inject poison into food products in a
supermarket.
a. family annihilators
b. long-distance killers
c. suicide bombers
d. set-and-run killers
9. The term _______________ was applied to Theodore Kaczynski before his actual identity
was known.
a. AIRBOMBER
b. BIOKILLER
c. UNAKILLER
d. UNABOMBER
10. On August 1, 1966, this man entered the tower of the University of Texas administration
building and began shooting people with a high-powered rifle.
a. Dylan Klebold
b. Dennis Rader
c. Cho Seung Hui
d. Charles Joseph Whitman
11. On Wednesday July 18, 1984, this man announced to his wife that he was “going to hunt
humans” and then proceeded to a McDonald's restaurant where he shot 41 people.
a. Cho Seung Hui
b. Charles Whitman
c. James Oliver Huberty
d. Allen Cram
12. The wife of the McDonald’s killer in San Ysidro California blamed her husband’s behavior
on
a. high levels of monosodium glutamate, lead, and cadmium
b. a brain tumor
c. harassment by coworkers
d. a temporal lobe glioblastoma
13. The worst non-terrorist mass murder in United States history was committed by
a. Charles Joseph Whitman
b. Cho Seung Hui
c. Clyde Barrow
d. Eric Harris
14. The “BTK Killer” was
a. Herbert William Mullin
b. Bobby Theodore Kantor
c. Dennis Rader
d. John Allen Muhammad
15. "What's one less person on the face of the earth, anyway?" This quote is attributable to
a. Ted Bundy
b. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
c. Dennis Rader
d. John Wayne Gacy
16. Which of the following is a myth regarding serial killers?
a. all serial killers are all “dysfunctional loners”
b. all serial killers are all white males
c. all serial killers are motivated only by sex
d. all the above
17. Which of the following is generally true of serial killers?
a. the serial killer has a need to be humiliated
b. the serial killer plans in the end to commit “suicide by cop”
c. the serial killer has a need to be in control
d. the serial killer has an unconscious desire to be caught
18. Norris (1988) and Ressler et al. (1988) regard many serial killers as going through certain
psychological “phases.” These phases, in their correct order are
a. aura phase, trolling phase, wooing phase, capture phase, murder phase, totem phase,
depression phase
b. depression phase, aura phase, trolling phase, wooing phase, capture phase, murder
phase, totem phase
c. aura phase, trolling phase, capture phase, wooing phase, murder phase, totem phase,
depression phase
d. depression phase, aura phase, trolling phase, capture phase, wooing phase, murder
phase, totem phase
19. Ted Bundy often strapped his arm in a sling and asked for help with carrying books or
packages in order to lure many of his victims into his car. According to the psychological
phase model of Norris (1988) and Ressler et al. (1988), this would be an example of
which phase?
a. trolling
b. totem
c. aura
d. wooing
20. Jeffrey Dahmer induced many of his victims to have a drink which was laced with drugs.
According to the psychological phase model of Norris (1988) and Ressler et al. (1988),
this would be an example of which phase?
a. wooing
b. trolling
c. capture
d. murder
21. Some serial killers take artifacts belonging to the victim, remove or eat part of the body,
remove and wear the skin, or take photographs. According to the psychological phase
model of Norris (1988) and Ressler et al. (1988), this would be an example of which
phase?
a. totem
b. depression
c. trolling
d. none of the above
22. Holmes & DeBurger (1985, 1988) have classified serial killers into a typology based on
their motives. This typology includes which of the following types?
a. parasitic, hedonistic, and mission-oriented
b. parasitic, power-seekers, and mission-oriented
c. visionary, mission-oriented, hedonistic, and power-seekers
d. parasitic, mission-oriented, and hedonistic
23. According to the Holmes & DeBurger (1985, 1988) typology, hearing voices and seeing
visions, would most likely be associated with which type of serial killer?
a. parasitic
b. hedonistic
c. visionary
d. mission-oriented
24. According to the Holmes & DeBurger (1985, 1988) typology, a powerful need to rid the
world of prostitutes, would most likely be associated with which type of serial killer?
a. mission-oriented
b. visionary
c. power-seekers
d. parasitic
25. According to the Holmes & DeBurger (1985, 1988) typology, a powerful need to rid the
world of homosexuals, would most likely be associated with which type of serial killer?
a. mission-oriented
b. visionary
c. power-seekers
d. parasitic
26. According to the Holmes & DeBurger (1985, 1988) typology, practicing cannibalism on
victims, would most likely be associated with which type of serial killer?
a. visionary
b. power-seekers
c. mission-oriented
d. parasitic
27. Necrophilia means
a. fascination with animals
b. fear of darkness
c. sex with the dead
d. fear of dead bodies
28. Necrophagia refers to
a. cannibalizing the dead
b. dismembering dead bodies
c. collecting dead animals
d. sex with animals
29. The film media’s reflection of society’s morbid curiosity with mass murder goes back to
movies of the 1960s such as
a. “Psycho”
b. “Summer of Sam”
c. “Along Came a Spider”
d. “Hannibal”
30. The killing of multiple victims is classified according to variables such as
a. race of the killer
b. time intervals between killings
c. number of people killed
d. b & c
31. Many school shooters share the characteristics of
a. coming from upper class homes
b. attending private schools
c. being unattractive and subject to social isolation
d. a & c
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