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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. For what career are psychopaths uniquely well-suited?

2. Why do wives often put up with psychopathic behaviors longer than they should?

3. How do psychopaths treat those in positions inferior to them?

4. Who do psychopaths typically blame when punished for their misconduct?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What attitude do white-collar psychopaths take toward their victims?

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

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

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

6. What kinds of professions are likely choices for white-collar psychopaths?

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

8. What are the reasons that psychotherapy is ineffective for psychopaths?

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

10. Who is Dr. Death, and why was he given that name?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Imagine that you have a friend whose new romantic interest appears to you to be a psychopath. You know that if you directly make this suggestion to your friend, your friendship will be at an end. Write an essay on the nature of psychopathy that you could show your friend in hopes that s/he would see the similarities between the cases to which you refer and her own situation. Feel free to invent the facts of your friend's situation, remembering that those facts have to demonstrate psychopathy.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think psychopaths do not normally get along with one another? Do you think they can recognize others who are like them? What makes you think so or not? In your essay, provide evidence for your opinion.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the nature vs. nurture argument regarding psychopathy. Do you think that one aspect is a more likely cause than the other? Are they equally involved? Support your thesis with reasons from the text

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