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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. What attitude toward children is a common theme among psychopaths?
(a) Violence.
(b) An indifference to their welfare.
(c) An emotional attachment.
(d) A sincere interest.

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

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

4. Why are most studies of psychopathy done in prisons?
(a) Prison contributes to the creation of psychopathy.
(b) Psychopaths and information about them are readily available.
(c) Prisoners are willing guinea pigs for examination.
(d) All prisoners are psychopathic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are psychopathic killers sometimes judged sane?

2. What do obligations and commitments mean to psychopaths?

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

4. How do psychopaths tend to feel about the future?

5. What do clinicians who prefer the term "sociopath" believe?

(see the answer key)

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