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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. On what basis do parole boards release prisoners?
(a) If they believe the offender no longer poses a significant threat to society.
(b) The offender has served a significant portion of his time.
(c) The prisons are overcrowded.
(d) The offender has promised to do better.

2. What did John Wayne Gacy say about his career murdering thirty-three people?
(a) "It was another person inside of me."
(b) "I don't know what came over me."
(c) "I was the victim."
(d) "They all deserved to die."

3. 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.

4. How did John Grambling make his living?
(a) Defrauding clients.
(b) Defrauding banks.
(c) Defrauding the government.
(d) Defrauding friends.

5. How did a psychopathic thief believe that his victims were better off?
(a) He hadn't done them any physical harm.
(b) They got to replace their possessions.
(c) They got to be in the newspaper headlines.
(d) They would collect more from insurance than their possessions were worth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author see as the antidote to inaccurate diagnoses?

2. Why did the author decline to diagnose Saddam Hussein?

3. What is the author's term for "successful" psychopaths?

4. What did Dr. Jerrold Post predict that Saddam Hussein would do?

5. How do psychopaths treat those in positions superior to them?

(see the answer key)

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