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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. What is socialization?
(a) Learning to network.
(b) Learning to live by society's rules.
(c) Learning to speak the language of those around you.
(d) Learning to make friends.

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

3. What percentage of prison inmates are psychopathic?
(a) Eighty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Twenty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Robert Lindner claim psychopaths strive?

2. Why are psychopathic killers sometimes judged sane?

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

4. Why did Jack Abbott reject the word "remorse" in his case?

5. Why are murderers often given early parole?

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