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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the danger in placing psychopaths in mental hospitals instead of prison settings?
(a) Misdiagnosis can depress the psychopath.
(b) Hospital staff may be less alert to symptoms of psychopathy.
(c) Misdiagnosis may make psychopaths overconfident.
(d) The hospitals do not have adequate security.

2. Why was Jeffrey Dahmer able to convince policemen that he was not committing crimes?
(a) He had friends on the police force.
(b) He talked fast.
(c) He was cool and calm.
(d) He had believable excuses.

3. How do psychopaths treat those in positions superior to them?
(a) They mock them.
(b) They brutalize them.
(c) They ingratiate themselves.
(d) They con them.

4. What is the most heart-wrenching situation involving psychopathy?
(a) When there is a psychopath in your family.
(b) When a pschopath has deceived you in a romantic relationship.
(c) When a psychopath has taken your money.
(d) When a psychopath is managing your trust fund.

5. What did one psychopath say made a good liar?
(a) Being intelligent.
(b) Being a good judge of people.
(c) Talking fast.
(d) Understanding the social system.

6. What will help you identify a new acquaintance as a psychopath?
(a) Vague, evasive, inconsistent replies to questions.
(b) Bad manners.
(c) An abnormal interest in you.
(d) An endless stream of jokes.

7. How do psychopaths see themselves in relation to others?
(a) They see themselves as inferior beings.
(b) They see themselves as superior beings.
(c) They never think of themselves in relation to others.
(d) They see themselves as the equal of anyone.

8. How secure are psychopaths in their own worldview?
(a) Psychopaths have rock-solid personality structures.
(b) Psychopathy is based in fear.
(c) Psychopaths are fragile and easily confused.
(d) Psychopaths are constantly changing.

9. Who was Amy Fisher?
(a) The Mata Hari of New York.
(b) Tokyo Rose.
(c) The Long Island Lolita.
(d) A Playboy bunny murder.

10. In how many cases did Dr. Grigson's expert testimony result in the death of defendants?
(a) Sixty-nine out of seventy.
(b) Fifteen out of thirty.
(c) All of them.
(d) Fifty out of sixty.

11. What effect does parental behavior have on psychopathy?
(a) It is the primary cause of psychopathy.
(b) It can ameliorate or exacerbate but not cause psychopathy.
(c) It has no relationship to the psychopath's behavior.
(d) It can cause psychopathy but not ameliorate or exacerbate.

12. What does the author believe Grigson's approach lacks?
(a) Careful examination and testing.
(b) Sufficient acquaintance with the defendant.
(c) Sufficient allowance for organic brain damage.
(d) Sufficient study of the evidence.

13. Who normally serves on parole boards?
(a) Mental health clinicians.
(b) Political appointees with few relevant qualifications.
(c) Criminal justice professionals.
(d) Politicians.

14. What is conscience to a psychopath?
(a) A puzzle to be solved.
(b) An intellectual awareness of someone else's rules.
(c) A barrier to be jumped.
(d) An emotional safeguard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what basis do parole boards release prisoners?

2. What is a typical sign of psychopathic conversation?

3. What reaction from professionals often frustrates spouses of psychopaths?

4. What is the author's term for "successful" psychopaths?

5. Why did one psychologist run off with her psychopathic patient?

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