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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What percentage of prison inmates are psychopathic?
(a) Eighty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Sixty.

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

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

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

8. How did a psychopathic thief believe that his victims were better off?
(a) They would collect more from insurance than their possessions were worth.
(b) They got to replace their possessions.
(c) They got to be in the newspaper headlines.
(d) He hadn't done them any physical harm.

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

10. What is the author's objective in writing this book?
(a) To help people escape from psychopathic interaction.
(b) To help people better understand psychopathy.
(c) To help mislabelled psychopaths get out of prison.
(d) To help people diagnose the psychopaths they may know.

11. What did Philippe Pinel call psychopathy?
(a) Moral insanity.
(b) Diabolical evil.
(c) Remorselessness.
(d) Insanity without delirium.

12. What was the first thing the author noticed about Ray when he met him?
(a) Ray's ease when lying.
(b) Ray's evil aura.
(c) Ray's relaxed conversation.
(d) Ray's intense stare.

13. Why is it important for parole boards to understand psychopathy?
(a) Psychopaths will eventually kill someone.
(b) All psychopaths will lie at parole hearings.
(c) Most criminals are psychopathic.
(d) Psychopathy is a strong predictor of recidivism.

14. What is the "cycle of violence"?
(a) Violent people commit escalating crimes.
(b) Victims become perpetrators.
(c) Violent people interact with other violent people.
(d) Violence causes revenge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are most studies of psychopathy done in prisons?

2. How did Clifford Olson become rich?

3. What proportion of psychopaths are serial killers?

4. How is antisocial personality disorder diagnosed?

5. What form of mental illness has about the same prevalence in North America as psychopathy?

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