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

2. What group is a frequent source of victims for psychopaths?
(a) Lonely women.
(b) Naive women.
(c) Unmarried women.
(d) Older women.

3. What reaction from professionals often frustrates spouses of psychopaths?
(a) Professionals often believe the psychopath rather than the victim.
(b) Professionals have little useful advice to offer.
(c) Professionals often want to incarcerate the psychopath.
(d) Professionals are more easily tricked than lay people.

4. To what does the author compare the psychopath's experience of emotion?
(a) Blindness.
(b) A riot.
(c) A waterfall.
(d) Color blindness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is oppositional defiant disorder?

2. How do psychopaths get into therapy?

3. Who was Amy Fisher?

4. What is attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder?

5. What is the two-pronged question clinicians face in dealing with psychopathic children?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why is it important to identify psychopathy in childhood?

7. What theory does the author feel may possibly explain the self-contradictory nature of psychopathic speech?

8. What characteristics distinguish psychopathic use of non-verbal communication?

9. What "uncanny" ability of psychopaths helps them find potential victims?

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

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