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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Focusing the Picture, pg 21-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the verdict in the case of Ted Bundy?
(a) He was found to be marginally accountable.
(b) He was found to be legally sane.
(c) He was found to be psychopathic.
(d) He was found to be psychotic.

2. How did Clifford Olson become rich?
(a) He embezzled from the firm where he worked.
(b) He created a Ponzi scheme and bilked investors.
(c) Authorities paid him to show the burial places of his victims.
(d) He married a rich woman and murdered her.

3. What did Philippe Pinel call psychopathy?
(a) Insanity without delirium.
(b) Diabolical evil.
(c) Moral insanity.
(d) Remorselessness.

4. What question did Helen and Steve ask themselves about their daughter Alice?
(a) Is she crazy or just plain bad?
(b) Is she coming home again?
(c) Can she be cured?
(d) Where is she?

5. Why is it important for parole boards to understand psychopathy?
(a) Most criminals are psychopathic.
(b) Psychopaths will eventually kill someone.
(c) Psychopathy is a strong predictor of recidivism.
(d) All psychopaths will lie at parole hearings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's objective in writing this book?

2. What was incongruous about the red button in the psychologist's office in British Columbia Penitentiary?

3. Why does William March say that good people are rarely suspicious?

4. What does Hervey Cleckley say the psychopath is incapable of understanding?

5. What form of mental illness has about the same prevalence in North America as psychopathy?

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