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

2. What event in the life of Lawrencia Bembenek did 300 people gather to celebrate?
(a) Her escape from prison.
(b) Her extradition to the U.S. from Canada.
(c) Her acquittal.
(d) Her conviction.

3. Who do psychopaths typically blame when punished for their misconduct?
(a) Someone else.
(b) Society as a whole.
(c) Their intimate friends.
(d) Their parents.

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

5. What is the two-pronged question clinicians face in dealing with psychopathic children?
(a) How are we to protect both ourselves and their civil rights?
(b) How are we to instill a missing conscience?
(c) How are we to teach them right from wrong?
(d) How are we to treat them and prevent recidivism?

Short Answer Questions

1. What might be learned about psychopaths from brain imaging technology?

2. What do psychopaths feel for their victims?

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

4. Why was Jeffrey Dahmer able to convince policemen that he was not committing crimes?

5. What is the danger in placing psychopaths in mental hospitals instead of prison settings?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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