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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Profile: Feelings and Relationships , pg 33-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is often inappropriately applied to psychopaths?
(a) Paranoid.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Psychotic.
(d) Schizophrenic.

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

3. How did Ted Bundy trick his victims into accompanying him when he was a stranger to them?
(a) He had a cute dog.
(b) He used crutches and asked for help.
(c) He pretended to know a mutual acquaintance.
(d) He offered them chocolate.

4. What was Elsa's first clue to Dan's criminal activity?
(a) He confessed to minor thievery.
(b) He had cases of unwrapped tape recorders and TVs.
(c) She saw his picture in the post office.
(d) He had an unusual amount of money.

5. Why are psychopaths seldom embarrassed about legal, financial or personal problems?
(a) They don't admit they have problems.
(b) Humble acceptance of responsibility is their hallmark.
(c) Problems are stepping stones to greater success.
(d) Problems are temporary, the fault of someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Kenneth Bianchi convince some clinicians that he was not one of the Hillside Stranglers?

2. How did a psychopathic thief believe that his victims were better off?

3. Why are psychopathic killers sometimes judged sane?

4. How did Ray take revenge on the author for not getting him work in his father's firm?

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

(see the answer key)

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