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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Flies in the Web, pg 144-154.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How well do psychopaths get along with one another?
(a) Comfortably.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Well.
(d) They often admire one another.

2. What do psychopaths commit twice as often as other criminal offenders?
(a) Acts of violence.
(b) Acts of robbery.
(c) Acts of embezzlement.
(d) Acts of deception.

3. What form of mental illness has about the same prevalence in North America as psychopathy?
(a) Oppositional-Defiant disorder.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Bipolar syndrome.

4. How do psychopaths often react to perceived insults?
(a) With extreme but short-lived outbursts.
(b) With faked forgiveness.
(c) With long-term planned revenge.
(d) With rigid self-control.

5. What are the motives of a psychopath in a social interchange?
(a) Overwhelm and destroy.
(b) Confuse and bedazzle.
(c) Convince and persuade.
(d) Manipulate and take.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what do today's young criminals have less?

2. What is a "desperado junkie"?

3. How do psychopaths treat those in positions inferior to them?

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

5. What might be learned about psychopaths from brain imaging technology?

(see the answer key)

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