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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) Twenty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Sixty.

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

3. What do psychopaths commit twice as often as other criminal offenders?
(a) Acts of violence.
(b) Acts of deception.
(c) Acts of embezzlement.
(d) Acts of robbery.

4. How do psychopaths tend to view their own aggression?
(a) As uncontrollable.
(b) As a natural response to provocation.
(c) As non-existent.
(d) As supernatural.

5. What was the first thing the author noticed about Ray when he met him?
(a) Ray's relaxed conversation.
(b) Ray's evil aura.
(c) Ray's ease when lying.
(d) Ray's intense stare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is conscience to a psychopath?

2. Which part of the brain is more analytical and sequential?

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

4. What is the most common effect of psychopaths on their victims?

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

(see the answer key)

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