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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ted Bundy claim was responsible for his murders?
(a) His mother's early childhood abuse.
(b) An alternate personality.
(c) His wife.
(d) A malignant entity.

2. What is the most common effect of psychopaths on their victims?
(a) Hatred and isolation.
(b) Ecstasy followed by sorrow.
(c) Guilt and regret.
(d) Confusion, disappointment and despair.

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

4. Why were second-degree murder charges against Roxanne Murray dropped?
(a) She was found to be insane.
(b) The charge was bumped up to first degree murder.
(c) She was remanded to a mental hospital.
(d) The court agreed that she had to kill her husband.

5. What prerequisite for love does a psychopath lack?
(a) Attractiveness.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Charm.
(d) Sympathy.

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

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

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

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

10. Why do socio-biologists claim that the number of psychopaths must be increasing?
(a) Psychopaths produce large numbers of children.
(b) Psychopaths are being more accurately diagnosed.
(c) Psychopaths make other people psychopathic.
(d) Social problems that lead to psychopathy are increasing.

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

12. What question did Helen and Steve ask themselves about their daughter Alice?
(a) Where is she?
(b) Can she be cured?
(c) Is she crazy or just plain bad?
(d) Is she coming home again?

13. What do obligations and commitments mean to psychopaths?
(a) A way to cover up evil intentions.
(b) Everything.
(c) A way to confuse victims.
(d) Nothing.

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

15. How did Ted Bundy trick his victims into accompanying him when he was a stranger to them?
(a) He offered them chocolate.
(b) He used crutches and asked for help.
(c) He had a cute dog.
(d) He pretended to know a mutual acquaintance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What often impresses people about psychopaths' discussion of technical subjects?

2. How did Kenneth Bianchi convince some clinicians that he was not one of the Hillside Stranglers?

3. What was incongruous about the red button in the psychologist's office in British Columbia Penitentiary?

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

5. Why did Jack Abbott reject the word "remorse" in his case?

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