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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 did Ray take revenge on the author for not getting him work in his father's firm?
2. What is the typical motivation for a psychopath's act of violence?
3. What form of mental illness has about the same prevalence in North America as psychopathy?
4. Why do concrete rewards override negative future consequences in the psychopath's mind?
5. Why were second-degree murder charges against Roxanne Murray dropped?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do psychopaths tend to view themselves in relation to others?
2. What signs did Helen have that her preadolescent daughter, Alice, was "off"?
3. In what key ways does a psychopath differ from normal criminals?
4. What motivates most people to abide by the rules of society?
5. How did psychopaths fare as fighter pilots during World War II?
6. What experience has convinced the author that the public needs to understand psychopathy?
7. What are some important differences between the violent acts of psychopaths and the violent acts of other criminals?
8. Why has the author decided that it's important to write about the technical topic of psychopathy at a level that the public can understand?
9. Why did Ray's showing a knife to the author put the author in an impossible position?
10. What distinguishes psychopaths from the mentally ill?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay giving advice to parents whose very young child has begun to exhibit signs of psychopathy: indifference to the feelings of others, cruelty to animals and other children, etc. Give the parents your opinion as to whether it is an advantage to get an early diagnosis or not. Support your idea with material from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining the difficulty with each of the diagnostic methods for identifying psychopathy.
Essay Topic 3
Write a descriptive essay detailing the characteristics of an ideal victim for a psychopath to use and manipulate. Would such a person be rich or poor? Single or married? Include as many details as you can, and support them with information from the text.
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