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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Words from an Overcoat Pocket, pg 124-143.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do socio-biologists claim that the number of psychopaths must be increasing?
(a) Psychopaths produce large numbers of children.
(b) Psychopaths make other people psychopathic.
(c) Social problems that lead to psychopathy are increasing.
(d) Psychopaths are being more accurately diagnosed.

2. What phrase did Alice's parents use to describe her behavior as a child?
(a) "She was mean."
(b) "Something was off."
(c) "She was impulsive."
(d) "She was unpredictable."

3. How do psychopaths often react to perceived insults?
(a) With extreme but short-lived outbursts.
(b) With rigid self-control.
(c) With faked forgiveness.
(d) With long-term planned revenge.

4. What is the "cycle of violence"?
(a) Victims become perpetrators.
(b) Violent people commit escalating crimes.
(c) Violence causes revenge.
(d) Violent people interact with other violent people.

5. What percentage of offenders who kill law enforcement officers are psychopathic?
(a) Sixty-two.
(b) Forty-four.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Ninety-eight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percentage of prison inmates are psychopathic?

3. How did Ray take revenge on the author for not getting him work in his father's firm?

4. Why did Gary Gilmore claim that he was not a great thief.

5. Who is vulnerable to the machinations of psychopaths?

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