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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 do psychopaths tend to feel about the future?
(a) They look forward to better days.
(b) They give it little thought.
(c) They plan constantly.
(d) They live in an imagined future.

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

3. Why does William March say that good people are rarely suspicious?
(a) They aren't very intelligent.
(b) They don't pay attention to warning signs.
(c) They don't understand psychopathy.
(d) They cannot imagine others doing things good people would not do.

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

5. Why are psychopathic killers sometimes judged sane?
(a) They are not deranged.
(b) They are unusually intelligent.
(c) They fool the authorities.
(d) They suffer from mental illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do McCord and McCord identify as the distinguishing trait of the psychopath?

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

3. Why was the kitchen an inappropriate placement for Ray?

4. How did Clifford Olson become rich?

5. What proportion of psychopaths are serial killers?

(see the answer key)

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