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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 helps boards quantify their decisions.
(b) It gives boards someone to blame when recidivism occurs.
(c) It is insurance against claims of improper parole.
(d) It ensures that no one who may commit future crime is released.

2. Who normally serves on parole boards?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Political appointees with few relevant qualifications.
(c) Mental health clinicians.
(d) Criminal justice professionals.

3. Why do the victims of psychopaths often have trouble convincing others?
(a) Their stories are too extreme to be believed.
(b) The victims are often wrongdoers themselves.
(c) Psychopaths paint the victims as the real culprits.
(d) The victims are not convincing speakers.

4. For the psychopath, crime is a natural result of what?
(a) A deviant personality structure.
(b) A tragic childhood.
(c) Opportunities all around.
(d) The confidence of foolish people.

5. Which traditional forms of treatment are successful with psychopaths?
(a) Group therapy and client-centered therapy.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) None of them.
(d) Electroshock and psychosurgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event in the life of Lawrencia Bembenek did 300 people gather to celebrate?

2. What is conscience to a psychopath?

3. What is unusual about the brain function of psychopaths?

4. What group is a frequent source of victims for psychopaths?

5. What does the author believe Grigson's approach lacks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What attitude do white-collar psychopaths take toward their victims?

3. Why is the option of ignoring the presence of psychopathy in children no longer available?

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

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

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

7. What is a hypothetical, and why is it dangerous in arriving at a diagnosis of psychopathy?

8. Why does the author say it is important that everyone learn how to deal with psychopathy?

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

10. Why is the typical advice to quit indulging misbehaving youth and get them into therapy considered by the author to be doomed to failure?

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