Deck 2: Cultural Development of Monsters, Demons, and Evil

Question 1

This 1486 text was the first encyclopedia of demonology.

A)Hammer of the Gods
B)Novus Ordo Seclorum
C)Malleus Maleficarum
D)Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Answer 1

C

Question 2

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

Answer 2

A

Question 3

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

Answer 3

A

Question 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

Question 5

Peter Stubb/Stump was a:

A)vampire
B)werewolf
C)ghoul
D)witch

Question 6

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

Question 7

Another name for a golem is:

A)zombie
B)vampire
C)robot
D)mental defect

Question 8

Anton LaVey was:

A)the earliest Dracula recorded in Germany
B)the founder of voodoo in America
C)also known as the angel of death
D)founder of the Church of Satan

Question 9

Most serial murderers involved in cult-related killings are found to be:

A)self-styled Satanists
B)hold office in the Church of Satan
C)advanced in their Satanic work
D)tattooed with the number 666

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

The Satanic Bible was written by:

A)Gore Vidal
B)David Abrahamsen
C)Gilles de Rais
D)Anton LaVey

Question 15

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

Question 16

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 people into wolves
D)medical procedure to exorcise evil spirits

Question 17

The purpose of the human-to-wolf transformation was the killing of humans, especially:

A)women
B)men
C)the elderly
D)children

Question 18

Vlad Tepes, a Wallachian nobleman, was known as:

A)a vicious and depraved sadist
B)the greatest vampire hunter of medieval times
C)the man who killed Dracula
D)the first known person to be killed by a vampire

Question 19

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

Question 20

"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

Question 21

The notion of evil becomes complicated by the generally accepted belief that
those who commit sins can _____ and virtually turn their lives around.

Question 22

Satanic cults in the United States appear to have attracted a growing number
of followers interested in the worship of _____.

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

The epitome of narcissism may well be the:

A)total domination of oneself.
B)eventual act of self-destruction.
C)total domination of others.
D)sum total of personality disorders.

Question 26

M.Scott Peck believes that evil people are best defined:

A)by the "consistency of their sins."
B)by the illegality of their actions.
C)as golems.
D)as Satan worshippers.

Question 27

The nature and definition of "evil" is not universal and agreed upon.

Question 28

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-wife

Question 29

This idea is intangible and unmeasurable and is often used as a misnomer for inappropriate behavior.

A)good
B)insanity
C)guilt
D)evil

Question 30

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.

Question 31

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.

Question 32

A function of the early European _____ was to find ways to eradicate the
problems attributed to witchcraft and sorcery.

Question 33

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

Question 34

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.

Question 35

According to M.Scott Peck, "people of the lie" are:

A)thieves
B)murderers
C)evil
D)liars

Question 36

Josef Mengele was:

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.

Question 37

Erich Fromm considered evil a process and not a state.

Question 38

Anthropophagy refers to revulsion at eating human flesh.

Question 39

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

Question 40

Folk lore pertaining to zombies, werewolves, vampires, etc.is found among few cultures.