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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What opened Elyse's eyes to Jeffrey's true character?
(a) Elyse's parents warned her about him.
(b) He had sexual encounters with her roommates.
(c) The psychiatrist was taken in by Jeffrey's charm.
(d) He stole from her.

3. What question did Joe McGinniss wrestle with during his relationship with Jeffrey MacDonald?
(a) How could I have misunderstood him?
(b) How could I have liked him?
(c) How could I have understood him?
(d) How could I have missed all the signs?

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

5. What is the typical cause of a psychopath's criminal activity?
(a) His character structure.
(b) Boredom.
(c) His upbringing.
(d) Negative social conditions

6. What do clinicians who prefer the term "sociopath" believe?
(a) Psychopathy is inborn.
(b) Society is responsible for creating psychopaths.
(c) Psychopathy is a mental illness.
(d) Psychopathy is caused by life experiences.

7. What does Hervey Cleckley say the psychopath is incapable of understanding?
(a) Society's rules.
(b) Other people's behavior.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Personal values.

8. What emotions are the mainsprings of conscience for most people?
(a) Fear and anxiety.
(b) Shame and embarrassment.
(c) Altruism and kindness.
(d) Love and hope.

9. What physician who murdered his family was portrayed in the movie Fatal Vision?
(a) John Wayne Gacy.
(b) Jeffrey MacDonald.
(c) Kenneth Bianchi.
(d) Gary Tison.

10. What was the verdict in the case of Edward Gein?
(a) He was found to be marginally accountable.
(b) He was found to be psychotic.
(c) He was found to be legally sane.
(d) He was found to be psychopathic.

11. What question first raised by Ray has stayed with the doctor throughout his career?
(a) Am I crazy or is Ray?
(b) What did I do to turn Ray against me?
(c) What in the psychopath's mentality gives him the power to override reality?
(d) How can Ray claim he was my assistant?

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

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

14. What have laboratory experiments using biomedical recorders shown about psychopaths?
(a) They suffer from tumbling insecurity.
(b) They suffer from excessive fear.
(c) They lack the physiological responses normally associated with fear.
(d) They fake good humor.

15. How did Ray trap the author by showing him a knife?
(a) Ray established that the author would not turn him in.
(b) Ray made the author a conspirator in his stabbing.
(c) Ray forced the author to obey him.
(d) Ray coerced the author into pleading his case.

Short Answer Questions

1. What need is sometimes satisfied for the psychopath by taking drugs?

2. What is the "cycle of violence"?

3. How are psychopaths unlike psychotics?

4. Why are psychopathic killers sometimes judged sane?

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

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