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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. What group is a frequent source of victims for psychopaths?
2. What does successful therapy require of a patient?
3. What is conscience to a psychopath?
4. What does the author believe Grigson's approach lacks?
5. How do psychopaths treat those in positions superior to them?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Kiki Olson say that the inclusion of more women in the workforce has opened new pathways for psychopaths?
2. Why is the option of ignoring the presence of psychopathy in children no longer available?
3. What does the Psychopathy checklist provide to clinicians that they are lacking?
4. What characteristics distinguish psychopathic use of non-verbal communication?
5. What warnings does the author give to those who are trying to deal with psychopaths in their lives?
6. What attitude do white-collar psychopaths take toward their victims?
7. Why does the author think it important to know about the eyes of a psychopath?
8. Why is it important to identify psychopathy in childhood?
9. What tools do white-color psychopaths use to get what they want?
10. What are the reasons that psychotherapy is ineffective for psychopaths?
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
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 3
One of the characteristics of psychopathy is an inability to learn from past experience. Write an essay explaining how this inability could cripple a person's ability to make progress in life.
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