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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. How did Ray take revenge on the author for not getting him work in his father's firm?
(a) He stalked the author's family.
(b) He told prison officials about the knife.
(c) He vandalized his car.
(d) He wrote hate mail to the author.

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

3. What does the author say is the hallmark of a psychopath?
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) Delusions.
(c) A stunning lack of conscience.
(d) Mental anguish.

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

5. What is the author's objective in writing this book?
(a) To help people escape from psychopathic interaction.
(b) To help people better understand psychopathy.
(c) To help mislabelled psychopaths get out of prison.
(d) To help people diagnose the psychopaths they may know.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Elsa's first clue to Dan's criminal activity?

2. How exactly does psychopathy correspond with troubled childhood?

3. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be crazy?

4. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be sane but evil?

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

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