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Module 1 - chapter 2 - Serial homicide test Flashcards

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1
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  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
A

c. Kenneth Bianchi

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  1. 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
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c. the transformation of human beings into wolves

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  1. “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
A

a. a medical operation on the skull

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  1. 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
A

c. Paracelsus

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  1. The purpose of the human-to-wolf transformation was the killing of humans, especially _____.
    a. women
    b. men
    c. the elderly
    d. children
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d. children

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  1. Peter Stubb/Stump was a _____.
    a. vampire
    b. werewolf
    c. ghoul
    d. witch
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b. werewolf

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  1. 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
A

a. Sawney Beane

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  1. 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
A

d. Vlad Tepes

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  1. 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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b. were sexually involved with their victims

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  1. 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
A

b. Gilles de Rais

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  1. This 1486 text was the first encyclopedia of demonology.
    a. Hammer of the Gods
    b. Novus Ordo Seclorum
    c. Malleus Maleficarum
    d. Necronomicon
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c. Malleus Maleficarum

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  1. This is another name for golem.
    a. zombie
    b. vampire
    c. robot
    d. mental defect
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c. robot

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  1. 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
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a. persons capable of murdering without remorse or feelings for the victim

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  1. The Satanic Bible was written by _____.
    a. Gore Vidal
    b. David Abrahamsen
    c. Gilles de Rais
    d. Anton LaVey
A

d. Anton LaVey

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  1. 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
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d. founder of the Church of Satan

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  1. 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
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b. drug smuggling

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  1. 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
A

a. Saturn death cults

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  1. 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
A

c. less than 5 percent

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  1. 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
A

c. the McMartin preschool case

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  1. 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.
A

a. Daycare centers do not have abnormally high rates of abuse.

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  1. 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
A

a. self-styled Satanists

22
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  1. A litmus test for cult organizations is that _____ is/are part of the structure.
    a. abuse
    b. bake sales
    c. secrecy
    d. rumors
A

a. abuse

23
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  1. This idea is intangible and unmeasurable and is often used as a misnomer for inappropriate behavior.
    a. good
    b. insanity
    c. guilt
    d. evil
A

d. evil

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  1. 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
A

d. murdering your ex-spouse

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  1. 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
A

c. an aspiring geneticist who conducted identical twin research for the
Nazis

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  1. 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
A

b. Robin Gecht

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  1. 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
A

a. by the “consistency of their sins”

28
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  1. According to Peck, who are “people of the lie?”
    a. thieves
    b. murderers
    c. evil people
    d. liars
A

c. evil people

29
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  1. 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
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c. total domination of others

30
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  1. 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
A

b. Gerard Schaefer

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  1. Folklore pertaining to zombies, werewolves, vampires, etc., is found among few cultures.
A

False

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  1. “Anthropophagy” refers to revulsion at eating human flesh.
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False

33
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  1. Satanic cults do not provide a large population of serial killers.
A

True

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  1. The nature and definition of “evil” is not universal and agreed upon.
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True

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  1. Erich Fromm considered evil a process and not a state.
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True

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