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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Ethics of Labeling, pg 180-191.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does William March say that good people are rarely suspicious?
(a) They don't understand psychopathy.
(b) They cannot imagine others doing things good people would not do.
(c) They don't pay attention to warning signs.
(d) They aren't very intelligent.

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

3. Which part of the brain is more analytical and sequential?
(a) The right hemisphere.
(b) The frontal lobe.
(c) The left hemisphere.
(d) Neither: both sides work together.

4. How did Ray take revenge on the author for not getting him work in his father's firm?
(a) He told prison officials about the knife.
(b) He stalked the author's family.
(c) He vandalized his car.
(d) He wrote hate mail to the author.

5. How does the author describe the psychopath's typical lifestyle?
(a) Focused and intense.
(b) Unstable and aimless.
(c) Driven.
(d) Planned and organized.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are psychopaths unlike psychotics?

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

3. What question did Helen and Steve ask themselves about their daughter Alice?

4. Why do socio-biologists claim that the number of psychopaths must be increasing?

5. What is the danger in placing psychopaths in mental hospitals instead of prison settings?

(see the answer key)

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