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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 percentage of serious crimes are committed by psychopaths?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Eighty.

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

3. What is conscience to a psychopath?
(a) A puzzle to be solved.
(b) A barrier to be jumped.
(c) An emotional safeguard.
(d) An intellectual awareness of someone else's rules.

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

5. What was Ted Bundy's opinion of guilt?
(a) There is no better way to control behavior.
(b) It helps keep society functional.
(c) It's an unhealthy mechanism to control people.
(d) It's just a dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the kitchen an inappropriate placement for Ray?

2. How do psychopaths tend to feel about the future?

3. How did psychopaths in the prison study of brain patterns respond to emotionally charged words?

4. What need is sometimes satisfied for the psychopath by taking drugs?

5. How do psychopaths tend to view their own aggression?

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