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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Ethics of Labeling, pg 180-191.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do psychopaths treat those in positions inferior to them?
(a) They mock them.
(b) They ingratiate themselves.
(c) They con them.
(d) They brutalize them.

2. Why do the victims of psychopaths often have trouble convincing others?
(a) Psychopaths paint the victims as the real culprits.
(b) The victims are not convincing speakers.
(c) Their stories are too extreme to be believed.
(d) The victims are often wrongdoers themselves.

3. Who normally serves on parole boards?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Political appointees with few relevant qualifications.
(c) Mental health clinicians.
(d) Criminal justice professionals.

4. For what career are psychopaths uniquely well-suited?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Imposters.
(d) Financial advisors.

5. What have laboratory experiments using biomedical recorders shown about psychopaths?
(a) They suffer from excessive fear.
(b) They fake good humor.
(c) They suffer from tumbling insecurity.
(d) They lack the physiological responses normally associated with fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author advise readers not to do with his book?

2. What is the danger in placing psychopaths in mental hospitals instead of prison settings?

3. What question did Joe McGinniss wrestle with during his relationship with Jeffrey MacDonald?

4. When does the U.S. Supreme Court say expert testimony, such as Grigson's, is admissible?

5. Why does a prison psychiatrist claim the psychopathy checklist is valuable for parole boards?

(see the answer key)

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