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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 attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder?
(a) Developmentally inappropriate inattention and impulsiveness.
(b) Unremitting truancy.
(c) Major violations of society's rules.
(d) Hostile, aggressive behavior.

2. In how many cases did Dr. Grigson's expert testimony result in the death of defendants?
(a) Fifty out of sixty.
(b) All of them.
(c) Sixty-nine out of seventy.
(d) Fifteen out of thirty.

3. What did one psychopath say made a good liar?
(a) Being intelligent.
(b) Talking fast.
(c) Being a good judge of people.
(d) Understanding the social system.

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

5. What does successful therapy require of a patient?
(a) Intense concentration.
(b) A lot of cash.
(c) Willingness to endure criticism.
(d) A desire to fix a problem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes suffering for a psychopath?

2. What effect does parental behavior have on psychopathy?

3. How is psychological denial useful?

4. What is conscience to a psychopath?

5. Why is it important to avoid power struggles with a psychopath?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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