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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Can Anything Be Done?, pg 192-206.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impression do astute observers sometimes get about psychopaths?
(a) They seem to be play-acting.
(b) They are unusually altruistic.
(c) They are not talkative.
(d) They are not easily angered.

2. Why are most studies of psychopathy done in prisons?
(a) All prisoners are psychopathic.
(b) Prisoners are willing guinea pigs for examination.
(c) Prison contributes to the creation of psychopathy.
(d) Psychopaths and information about them are readily available.

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

4. What did one psychopath say made a good liar?
(a) Being intelligent.
(b) Talking fast.
(c) Understanding the social system.
(d) Being a good judge of people.

5. Why do the victims of white-collar psychopaths often fail to report?
(a) It's humiliating to be duped.
(b) They don't know they were duped.
(c) They didn't lose enough to bother about.
(d) Their own wrongdoing was part of the crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do McCord and McCord identify as the distinguishing trait of the psychopath?

2. What did Dave suggest that his boss do?

3. How is psychological denial a disadvantage?

4. How do psychopaths treat those in positions inferior to them?

5. How does Ronald Markman account for the public fascination with remorseless psychopaths?

(see the answer key)

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