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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 do psychopaths feel for their victims?
(a) Unusual interest.
(b) Total indifference.
(c) Intense hatred.
(d) Disgust.

2. What will help you identify a new acquaintance as a psychopath?
(a) Vague, evasive, inconsistent replies to questions.
(b) An abnormal interest in you.
(c) An endless stream of jokes.
(d) Bad manners.

3. What is the danger in placing psychopaths in mental hospitals instead of prison settings?
(a) Misdiagnosis may make psychopaths overconfident.
(b) Misdiagnosis can depress the psychopath.
(c) The hospitals do not have adequate security.
(d) Hospital staff may be less alert to symptoms of psychopathy.

4. Why do the victims of white-collar psychopaths often fail to report?
(a) It's humiliating to be duped.
(b) They didn't lose enough to bother about.
(c) They don't know they were duped.
(d) Their own wrongdoing was part of the crime.

5. What is a typical sign of psychopathic conversation?
(a) Flattery.
(b) Entertaining stories.
(c) Self-contradiction.
(d) Interest in the listener.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is conduct disorder?

2. When do psychopathic children lie when normal children would not?

3. What did Dave suggest that his boss do?

4. How do psychopaths get into therapy?

5. What is a person's best defense against psychopaths?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it about the speech of psychopaths that may reveal the condition to an astute observer?

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

3. What distinguishes the lying of psychopaths from that of other liars?

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

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

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

7. What benefits came from public exposure to the man who claimed to be a Berkeley Ph.D. in psychology and was discovered by a local reporter to have faked his resume when he ran for the school board?

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

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

10. What is the danger of inaccurate diagnosis of psychopathy?

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