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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. Why does a prison psychiatrist claim the psychopathy checklist is valuable for parole boards?
(a) It gives boards someone to blame when recidivism occurs.
(b) It is insurance against claims of improper parole.
(c) It ensures that no one who may commit future crime is released.
(d) It helps boards quantify their decisions.

2. What does a preschool psychopath understand about right and wrong?
(a) It's wrong if my mother says, no.
(b) It's wrong if I get caught; it's right if I don't.
(c) It's right if my mother says, okay.
(d) It's wrong if I don't get caught; it's right if I do.

3. What is the two-pronged question clinicians face in dealing with psychopathic children?
(a) How are we to protect both ourselves and their civil rights?
(b) How are we to teach them right from wrong?
(c) How are we to instill a missing conscience?
(d) How are we to treat them and prevent recidivism?

4. What is conscience to a psychopath?
(a) A barrier to be jumped.
(b) An emotional safeguard.
(c) An intellectual awareness of someone else's rules.
(d) A puzzle to be solved.

5. How did a psychopath flatter forensic psychologist J. Reid Meloy?
(a) By telling Meloy how impressed he was with his writing.
(b) By offering to work for Meloy without pay.
(c) By telling Meloy he was handsome.
(d) By quoting from Meloy's published work.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can you protect yourself from a psychopath's flattery?

2. How do psychopaths tend to view therapists?

3. Which "special issue" makes the death penalty difficult to decide for those who must judge murderers in Texas?

4. How do psychopaths get into therapy?

5. Who normally serves on parole boards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tools do white-color psychopaths use to get what they want?

2. What are the reasons that psychotherapy is ineffective for psychopaths?

3. How have family members often unwittingly contributed to a psychopath's misbehavior?

4. What benefit does a psychopath typically get from therapy programs?

5. Why is it difficult to identify psychopathy in children?

6. What does the Psychopathy checklist provide to clinicians that they are lacking?

7. Why are many clinicians and family members reluctant to identify psychopathy in childhood?

8. Who is Dr. Death, and why was he given that name?

9. Why are nurturing, kind-hearted women ideal victims for psychopaths?

10. Why does Kiki Olson say that the inclusion of more women in the workforce has opened new pathways for psychopaths?

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