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

2. What question first raised by Ray has stayed with the doctor throughout his career?
(a) How can Ray claim he was my assistant?
(b) Am I crazy or is Ray?
(c) What did I do to turn Ray against me?
(d) What in the psychopath's mentality gives him the power to override reality?

3. How do psychopaths often react to perceived insults?
(a) With long-term planned revenge.
(b) With rigid self-control.
(c) With extreme but short-lived outbursts.
(d) With faked forgiveness.

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

5. How did Ray trap the author by showing him a knife?
(a) Ray made the author a conspirator in his stabbing.
(b) Ray coerced the author into pleading his case.
(c) Ray established that the author would not turn him in.
(d) Ray forced the author to obey him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does William March say that good people are rarely suspicious?

2. What was Elsa's first clue to Dan's criminal activity?

3. What percentage of offenders who kill law enforcement officers are psychopathic?

4. What do McCord and McCord identify as the distinguishing trait of the psychopath?

5. Upon what two abilities does conscience depend?

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

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

5. What distinguishes psychopaths who become criminals?

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

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

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

9. Why are psychopathic killers often judged legally sane?

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

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