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

Question 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

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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

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

Answer 3

D

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

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 6

This is another name for golem.

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

Question 7

The Satanic Bible was written by _____.

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

Question 8

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 9

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

Question 10

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 11

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 12

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

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

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

Question 15

This 1486 text was the first encyclopedia of demonology.

A)Hammer of the Gods
B)Novus Ordo Seclorum
C)Malleus Maleficarum
D)Necronomicon

Question 16

"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 17

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 18

Peter Stubb/Stump was a _____.

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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 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

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

According to Peck, who are "people of the lie?"

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

Erich Fromm considered evil a process and not a state.

Question 28

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 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

Question 30

A litmus test for cult organizations is that _____ is/are part of the structure.

A)abuse
B)bake sales
C)secrecy
D)rumors

Question 31

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 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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 36

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 37

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

Question 38

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 39

"Anthropophagy" refers to revulsion at eating human flesh.