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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 Edward Gein?
(a) He was found to be marginally accountable.
(b) He was found to be psychopathic.
(c) He was found to be psychotic.
(d) He was found to be legally sane.

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 not expect help.
(b) You could push it in an emergency, but it did not work.
(c) It was designed to simulate a real call button.
(d) You could push it, but it indicated weakness on your part.

3. How exactly does psychopathy correspond with troubled childhood?
(a) There is no correspondence.
(b) There is a 65% correspondence.
(c) There is 100% correspondence.
(d) There is 75% correspondence.

4. 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 wrote hate mail to the author.
(c) He told prison officials about the knife.
(d) He vandalized his car.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What prerequisite for love does a psychopath lack?

3. What phrase did Alice's parents use to describe her behavior as a child?

4. What did Philippe Pinel call psychopathy?

5. What psychopath does the author claim commanded a nation?

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