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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. How many psychopaths are estimated to be in North America?
(a) Two hundred thousand.
(b) One million.
(c) One hundred thousand.
(d) Two million.

2. What was the verdict in the case of Edward Gein?
(a) He was found to be psychotic.
(b) He was found to be psychopathic.
(c) He was found to be marginally accountable.
(d) He was found to be legally sane.

3. What characteristics make psychopaths unsuitable for dangerous jobs?
(a) Fear and trepidation.
(b) Perfectionism and attention to detail.
(c) Adrenaline addiction.
(d) Unpredictability and carelessness.

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

5. What proportion of psychopaths are serial killers?
(a) One out of twenty to thirty thousand.
(b) Half.
(c) One in a million.
(d) One in fifty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of serious crimes are committed by psychopaths?

2. How did Clifford Olson become rich?

3. How do law enforcement officials make use of psychopaths' lack of loyalty?

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

5. Why are murderers often given early parole?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What motivates most people to abide by the rules of society?

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

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

5. Why are psychopathic killers often judged legally sane?

6. What does William March list as some reasons good people do not readily recognize psychopathy?

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

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

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

10. How was Jeffrey able to override any suspicions Elyse should have had about him?

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