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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Crime: The Logical Choice, 83-101.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Upon what two abilities does conscience depend?
(a) The ability to imagine consequences and talk to oneself.
(b) The ability to overrule foolish desires.
(c) The ability to comprehend society's priorities and live by them.
(d) The ability to obey and reason.

3. How did Clifford Olson become rich?
(a) He embezzled from the firm where he worked.
(b) He created a Ponzi scheme and bilked investors.
(c) He married a rich woman and murdered her.
(d) Authorities paid him to show the burial places of his victims.

4. What percentage of offenders who kill law enforcement officers are psychopathic?
(a) Ninety-eight.
(b) Forty-four.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Sixty-two.

5. What term is often inappropriately applied to psychopaths?
(a) Paranoid.
(b) Psychotic.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Schizophrenic.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why were second-degree murder charges against Roxanne Murray dropped?

4. Why are psychopaths seldom embarrassed about legal, financial or personal problems?

5. How do psychopaths tend to view family members?

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