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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the author feel about films that allow identification with psychopaths?
2. What is the typical cause of a psychopath's criminal activity?
3. Upon what two abilities does conscience depend?
4. What did John Wayne Gacy say about his career murdering thirty-three people?
5. What physician who murdered his family was portrayed in the movie Fatal Vision?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why has the author determined not to devote much of his book to psychodynamic, unconscious processes of psychopathy?
2. How do psychopaths tend to view themselves in relation to others?
3. Why is it important to determine whether a psychopath is mentally ill or simply a wrongdoer?
4. Why did Ray's showing a knife to the author put the author in an impossible position?
5. Without an internal motivation to abide by society's rules, what is the psychopath free to do?
6. What signs did Helen have that her preadolescent daughter, Alice, was "off"?
7. What factor in Ray's behavior puzzled the author and led him to further study?
8. What experience has convinced the author that the public needs to understand psychopathy?
9. What distinguishes psychopaths from the mentally ill?
10. What does William March list as some reasons good people do not readily recognize psychopathy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
An Australian judge put a psychopathic killer into a mental institution rather than a prison on the grounds that "anyone would have to be crazy to behave in that fashion." In your essay, support or refute the argument that psychopaths are obviously mentally ill. Use information from the text to support your thesis.
Essay Topic 2
Use the descriptions provided in this text to compose a word portrait of a typical psychopath for a person who has never heard the term. What would he or she do in a first encounter? What identifying features would present themselves? How could a psychopath be recognized?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay explaining the difficulty with each of the diagnostic methods for identifying psychopathy.
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