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

2. What did Dr. Jerrold Post predict that Saddam Hussein would do?
(a) Escalate the conflict with the U.S.
(b) Publically apologize.
(c) Back down from confrontation with the U.S.
(d) Commit suicide.

3. Who was Amy Fisher?
(a) A Playboy bunny murder.
(b) Tokyo Rose.
(c) The Long Island Lolita.
(d) The Mata Hari of New York.

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

5. How do psychopaths get into therapy?
(a) By court order.
(b) By school referrals.
(c) At the request of families or as a condition for parole.
(d) By personal request.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What causes suffering for a psychopath?

3. Why do the victims of white-collar psychopaths often fail to report?

4. Why does a prison psychiatrist claim the psychopathy checklist is valuable for parole boards?

5. What does Hervey Cleckley see as the main difference between psychopaths who are not incarcerated and those who are?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the victims of psychopaths so reluctant to believe evidence of their wrongdoing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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