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

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

3. Why are murderers often given early parole?
(a) Murderers can con parole boards.
(b) Homicide is typically unlikely to be repeated.
(c) Murderers can fake remorse.
(d) Murderers can demonstrate good behavior.

4. Why was the kitchen an inappropriate placement for Ray?
(a) He could steal silverware.
(b) He had access to the ingredients to make alcohol.
(c) He had access to poisons.
(d) He had access to knives.

5. What attitude toward children is a common theme among psychopaths?
(a) An emotional attachment.
(b) Violence.
(c) An indifference to their welfare.
(d) A sincere interest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What population makes up two-thirds of the victims of psychopathic criminals?

2. How exactly does psychopathy correspond with troubled childhood?

3. For what does Robert Lindner claim psychopaths strive?

4. Upon what two abilities does conscience depend?

5. What prerequisite for love does a psychopath lack?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What factor in Ray's behavior puzzled the author and led him to further study?

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

4. Why did Ray's showing a knife to the author put the author in an impossible position?

5. How are psychopaths often able to pass themselves off as experts?

6. In what key ways does a psychopath differ from normal criminals?

7. What are some important differences between the violent acts of psychopaths and the violent acts of other criminals?

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

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

10. How do normal criminals become involved in a criminal lifestyle?

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