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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 do McCord and McCord identify as the distinguishing trait of the psychopath?
(a) Intense staring.
(b) Guiltlessness.
(c) Aggression.
(d) Self-pity.

2. What psychopath does the author claim commanded a nation?
(a) Pol Pot.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Idi Amin.

3. Why do socio-biologists claim that the number of psychopaths must be increasing?
(a) Psychopaths make other people psychopathic.
(b) Psychopaths are being more accurately diagnosed.
(c) Psychopaths produce large numbers of children.
(d) Social problems that lead to psychopathy are increasing.

4. What impression do astute observers sometimes get about psychopaths?
(a) They seem to be play-acting.
(b) They are not talkative.
(c) They are not easily angered.
(d) They are unusually altruistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ray trap the author by showing him a knife?

2. How does Ronald Markman account for the public fascination with remorseless psychopaths?

3. What is the most common effect of psychopaths on their victims?

4. What proportion of psychopaths are serial killers?

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

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