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

2. How does Ronald Markman account for the public fascination with remorseless psychopaths?
(a) We feel sorry for them.
(b) We have something of them in us and we want to know what it is.
(c) We admire them.
(d) We envy them.

3. 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?

4. To what does the author compare the psychopath's experience of emotion?
(a) Blindness.
(b) A riot.
(c) Color blindness.
(d) A waterfall.

5. How many psychopaths are estimated to be in North America?
(a) One hundred thousand.
(b) One million.
(c) Two hundred thousand.
(d) Two million.

Short Answer Questions

1. How exactly does psychopathy correspond with troubled childhood?

2. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be sane but evil?

3. What was the verdict in the case of Edward Gein?

4. Why is Hannibal Lecter not an accurate portrayal of a psychopath?

5. What do obligations and commitments mean to psychopaths?

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