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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. What does the author advise readers not to do with his book?
(a) Use it to seek professional help.
(b) Rely upon it too heavily.
(c) Share it with friends.
(d) Diagnose themselves or others.

2. What question did Joe McGinniss wrestle with during his relationship with Jeffrey MacDonald?
(a) How could I have understood him?
(b) How could I have liked him?
(c) How could I have missed all the signs?
(d) How could I have misunderstood him?

3. How did Ray trap the author by showing him a knife?
(a) Ray made the author a conspirator in his stabbing.
(b) Ray forced the author to obey him.
(c) Ray coerced the author into pleading his case.
(d) Ray established that the author would not turn him in.

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

5. To what does the author compare the psychopath's experience of emotion?
(a) Color blindness.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) A riot.
(d) Blindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which part of the brain is more emotional and processes events simultaneously?

2. What have laboratory experiments using biomedical recorders shown about psychopaths?

3. What characteristics make psychopaths unsuitable for dangerous jobs?

4. How does the author describe the psychopath's typical lifestyle?

5. What do psychopaths commit twice as often as other criminal offenders?

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