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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 do psychopaths feel for their victims?

2. What do psychopaths often miss?

3. Why does a prison psychiatrist claim the psychopathy checklist is valuable for parole boards?

4. How secure are psychopaths in their own worldview?

5. Why are nurturing women ideal prey for psychopaths?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Kiki Olson say that the inclusion of more women in the workforce has opened new pathways for psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

7. What warnings does the author give to those who are trying to deal with psychopaths in their lives?

8. Why is a bilateral brain, with each side having separate spheres of influence, more efficient?

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

10. What characteristics distinguish psychopathic use of non-verbal communication?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining Dr. Hare's admonition not to use the Psychopathy checklist for self-diagnosis or to diagnose acquaintances. What is the importance of this precaution? What is the temptation? How many of those characteristics could be reliably identified by a non-professional observer? For instance, is there a clear delineation between glib and non-glib? Between grandiose and enthusiastic?

Essay Topic 2

Empathy is a subject that is discussed at length in this book and that has great bearing on the diagnosis of psychopathy. In your essay, explain the word empathy and clarify its meaning with examples. How do empathetic people feel and behave? What is the difference between normal people and those who are without empathy? What difference would it make in your life if you could not feel empathy for others?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay comparing and contrasting criminal psychopaths with non-criminal psychopaths. Include statistics and examples from the text that illustrate both similarities and differences.

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