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

2. What have laboratory experiments using biomedical recorders shown about psychopaths?
(a) They lack the physiological responses normally associated with fear.
(b) They fake good humor.
(c) They suffer from tumbling insecurity.
(d) They suffer from excessive fear.

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

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

5. What form of mental illness has about the same prevalence in North America as psychopathy?
(a) Bipolar syndrome.
(b) Oppositional-Defiant disorder.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Paranoia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do psychopaths tend to view family members?

2. Why did Jack Abbott reject the word "remorse" in his case?

3. How did Ted Bundy trick his victims into accompanying him when he was a stranger to them?

4. What physician who murdered his family was portrayed in the movie Fatal Vision?

5. What did John Wayne Gacy say about his career murdering thirty-three people?

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