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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. Who is vulnerable to the machinations of psychopaths?
(a) Innocent people.
(b) Naive people.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Gullible people.

2. How did psychopaths in the prison study of brain patterns respond to emotionally charged words?
(a) With excess emotion.
(b) As if they were neutral.
(c) Positively.
(d) Negatively.

3. What is a person's best defense against psychopaths?
(a) Compassion for their situation.
(b) Alerting the authorities.
(c) Restraining orders.
(d) Understanding their nature.

4. Why did the Australian Supreme Court pronounce Garry David mentally ill?
(a) Anyone with David's history must be mentally ill.
(b) David was obviously schizophrenic.
(c) No psychopath could possibly be sane.
(d) David's behavior was clearly anti-social.

5. How do psychopaths tend to view therapists?
(a) As their only hope.
(b) As friends and supporters.
(c) As objects to be conned.
(d) As surrogate family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the author decline to diagnose Saddam Hussein?

2. What effect does parental behavior have on psychopathy?

3. For the psychopath, crime is a natural result of what?

4. What do psychopaths often gain from therapy programs?

5. What does a preschool psychopath understand about right and wrong?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What warnings does the author give to those who are trying to deal with psychopaths in their lives?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why is a bilateral brain, with each side having separate spheres of influence, more efficient?

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

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

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