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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do psychopaths often miss?
(a) Cues that warn of danger.
(b) Opportunities to succeed.
(c) Public regard.
(d) Love and affection.

2. What group is a frequent source of victims for psychopaths?
(a) Unmarried women.
(b) Older women.
(c) Lonely women.
(d) Naive women.

3. What does the author see as the antidote to inaccurate diagnoses?
(a) Careful attention to a defendant's explanations.
(b) Careful study of an offender's background.
(c) Careful use of sound scientific procedures.
(d) Careful comparison with similar cases.

4. Why do the victims of white-collar psychopaths often fail to report?
(a) They didn't lose enough to bother about.
(b) It's humiliating to be duped.
(c) They don't know they were duped.
(d) Their own wrongdoing was part of the crime.

5. When do psychopathic children lie when normal children would not?
(a) When it's going to get them into more trouble.
(b) When lying is possibly going to be uncovered.
(c) When lying won't prevent punishment.
(d) When those around them are aware of the truth.

6. What do psychopaths feel for their victims?
(a) Unusual interest.
(b) Total indifference.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Intense hatred.

7. Which "special issue" makes the death penalty difficult to decide for those who must judge murderers in Texas?
(a) Is there a probability that the defendant will commit criminal acts of violence in the future?
(b) Did the murderer deliberately seek the death of his victim?
(c) Is the murderer mentally competent to stand trial?
(d) Was there reasonable provocation for the defendant's acts?

8. To what does the author compare the psychopath's experience of emotion?
(a) Blindness.
(b) A riot.
(c) A waterfall.
(d) Color blindness.

9. How did John Grambling make his living?
(a) Defrauding friends.
(b) Defrauding clients.
(c) Defrauding banks.
(d) Defrauding the government.

10. Why did one psychologist run off with her psychopathic patient?
(a) She was studying his case.
(b) She was trapping him into revealing himself.
(c) She wanted to do field work on his methods.
(d) She believed his promises.

11. Why did the Australian Supreme Court pronounce Garry David mentally ill?
(a) No psychopath could possibly be sane.
(b) David's behavior was clearly anti-social.
(c) Anyone with David's history must be mentally ill.
(d) David was obviously schizophrenic.

12. What is the most distressing aspect of increasing juvenile crime?
(a) Increasing disregard for social rules.
(b) The ever-younger age at which crimes are committed.
(c) Increasing cooperation among young offenders.
(d) Increasing hostility toward adults.

13. How do psychopaths tend to view therapists?
(a) As surrogate family.
(b) As their only hope.
(c) As friends and supporters.
(d) As objects to be conned.

14. For what career are psychopaths uniquely well-suited?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Financial advisors.
(c) Imposters.
(d) Lawyers.

15. How did a psychopath flatter forensic psychologist J. Reid Meloy?
(a) By quoting from Meloy's published work.
(b) By telling Meloy he was handsome.
(c) By offering to work for Meloy without pay.
(d) By telling Meloy how impressed he was with his writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Amy Fisher?

2. When does the U.S. Supreme Court say expert testimony, such as Grigson's, is admissible?

3. What did one psychopath say made a good liar?

4. Why do the victims of psychopaths often have trouble convincing others?

5. How did Clifford Olson see himself during his trial?

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