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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 attitude toward children is a common theme among psychopaths?
(a) An emotional attachment.
(b) An indifference to their welfare.
(c) Violence.
(d) A sincere interest.

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

3. Why was the kitchen an inappropriate placement for Ray?
(a) He had access to poisons.
(b) He had access to the ingredients to make alcohol.
(c) He could steal silverware.
(d) He had access to knives.

4. What do obligations and commitments mean to psychopaths?
(a) A way to confuse victims.
(b) A way to cover up evil intentions.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

5. What physician who murdered his family was portrayed in the movie Fatal Vision?
(a) John Wayne Gacy.
(b) Gary Tison.
(c) Jeffrey MacDonald.
(d) Kenneth Bianchi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author feel about films that allow identification with psychopaths?

2. Why are murderers often given early parole?

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

4. What can be observed about the mental processes of psychopaths?

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

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