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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 was incongruous about the red button in the psychologist's office in British Columbia Penitentiary?
(a) You could push it, but it indicated weakness on your part.
(b) You could push it in an emergency but not expect help.
(c) You could push it in an emergency, but it did not work.
(d) It was designed to simulate a real call button.

2. Which part of the brain is more emotional and processes events simultaneously?
(a) The frontal lobe.
(b) The left hemisphere.
(c) The right hemisphere.
(d) Neither: they both work together.

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

4. Why did Gary Gilmore claim that he was not a great thief.
(a) He was too impulsive.
(b) He was not intelligent enough.
(c) He was not interested in thievery.
(d) He was too sympathetic.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a typical sign of psychopathic conversation?

3. What is the typical motivation for a psychopath's act of violence?

4. How do psychopaths know what emotions to display to others?

5. What question first raised by Ray has stayed with the doctor throughout his career?

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