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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did John Wayne Gacy say about his career murdering thirty-three people?
(a) "I don't know what came over me."
(b) "It was another person inside of me."
(c) "I was the victim."
(d) "They all deserved to die."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ted Bundy's opinion of guilt?

2. Why did Gary Gilmore claim that he was not a great thief.

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

4. How do psychopaths tend to view their own aggression?

5. Why was the kitchen an inappropriate placement for Ray?

Short Essay Questions

1. What distinguishes psychopaths who become criminals?

2. What experience has convinced the author that the public needs to understand psychopathy?

3. Why is it important to determine whether a psychopath is mentally ill or simply a wrongdoer?

4. How did psychopaths fare as fighter pilots during World War II?

5. How do psychopaths typically speak of the harm they have caused to others?

6. In what ways are psychopaths compared to science fiction androids by the author?

7. Without an internal motivation to abide by society's rules, what is the psychopath free to do?

8. Why has the author mistrusted the results of psychological testing to identify psychopaths?

9. Why doesn't the psychopath's need for change and excitement make him a good candidate for dangerous jobs?

10. Why has the author determined not to devote much of his book to psychodynamic, unconscious processes of psychopathy?

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