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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 is antisocial personality disorder diagnosed?
(a) Emotional triggers.
(b) Reports of family and acquaintances.
(c) Antisocial and criminal behaviors.
(d) Rigorous personality testing.

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

3. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be sane but evil?
(a) Correctional facilities.
(b) Mental health facilities.
(c) Research hospitals.
(d) Universities.

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 knives.
(d) He had access to poisons.

5. What do obligations and commitments mean to psychopaths?
(a) A way to cover up evil intentions.
(b) A way to confuse victims.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. What impression do astute observers sometimes get about psychopaths?

2. How do the criminal activities of psychopaths compare with those of other criminals?

3. What effect did Jeffrey have on Elyse's future relationships with men?

4. What attitude toward children is a common theme among psychopaths?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do psychopaths come to be involved in crime?

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

7. How do psychopaths tend to view themselves in relation to others?

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

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

10. How has the term "psychopath" contributed to confusion about its meaning?

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