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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Internal Controls: The Missing Peice, pg 71-82.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is antisocial personality disorder diagnosed?
(a) Rigorous personality testing.
(b) Reports of family and acquaintances.
(c) Emotional triggers.
(d) Antisocial and criminal behaviors.

2. Why is Hannibal Lecter not an accurate portrayal of a psychopath?
(a) He is crazy.
(b) He is sympathetic.
(c) He is modest.
(d) He is intelligent.

3. What question first raised by Ray has stayed with the doctor throughout his career?
(a) How can Ray claim he was my assistant?
(b) Am I crazy or is Ray?
(c) What in the psychopath's mentality gives him the power to override reality?
(d) What did I do to turn Ray against me?

4. How does Ronald Markman account for the public fascination with remorseless psychopaths?
(a) We envy them.
(b) We have something of them in us and we want to know what it is.
(c) We feel sorry for them.
(d) We admire them.

5. How does the author feel about films that allow identification with psychopaths?
(a) They are cathartic, releasing our interest in evil without doing harm.
(b) They are helpful diagnostic tools.
(c) They are silly and have no connection with reality.
(d) They are powerful role models for people with problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what do today's young criminals have less?

2. Upon what two abilities does conscience depend?

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

4. What attitude toward children is a common theme among psychopaths?

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

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