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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What population makes up two-thirds of the victims of psychopathic criminals?
(a) Female strangers.
(b) Male friends and acquaintances.
(c) Female friends and acquaintances.
(d) Male strangers.

2. What percentage of serious crimes are committed by psychopaths?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifty.

3. What term is often inappropriately applied to psychopaths?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Psychotic.
(c) Schizophrenic.
(d) Paranoid.

4. What does the author advise readers not to do with his book?
(a) Diagnose themselves or others.
(b) Use it to seek professional help.
(c) Share it with friends.
(d) Rely upon it too heavily.

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

6. What proportion of psychopaths are serial killers?
(a) One in a million.
(b) One out of twenty to thirty thousand.
(c) Half.
(d) One in fifty.

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

8. Why do concrete rewards override negative future consequences in the psychopath's mind?
(a) Future consequences are distant.
(b) Future consequences are vague.
(c) Future consequences may not come to pass.
(d) Future consequences are unimportant.

9. How do the criminal activities of psychopaths compare with those of other criminals?
(a) Psychopaths' crimes are more varied and frequent.
(b) Psychopaths' crimes are harder to detect.
(c) Psychopaths' crimes are more specialized.
(d) Psychopaths' crimes are more violent.

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

11. Upon what two abilities does conscience depend?
(a) The ability to obey and reason.
(b) The ability to overrule foolish desires.
(c) The ability to imagine consequences and talk to oneself.
(d) The ability to comprehend society's priorities and live by them.

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

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

14. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be sane but evil?
(a) Research hospitals.
(b) Universities.
(c) Correctional facilities.
(d) Mental health facilities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difficulty in using empathy, egocentricity, or guilt as determinants in a diagnosis?

2. What opened Elyse's eyes to Jeffrey's true character?

3. How do psychopaths tend to view family members?

4. What question first raised by Ray has stayed with the doctor throughout his career?

5. Why are psychopaths seldom embarrassed about legal, financial or personal problems?

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