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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Lifestyles, pg 57-70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the difficulty in using empathy, egocentricity, or guilt as determinants in a diagnosis?
(a) Clinicians are often prejudiced in favor of their clients.
(b) Participants can lie in reporting.
(c) The average clincian can't reliably assess those traits.
(d) Everyone tested comes out at about the same level.

2. How well do psychopaths get along with one another?
(a) They often admire one another.
(b) Comfortably.
(c) Well.
(d) Not at all.

3. How exactly does psychopathy correspond with troubled childhood?
(a) There is 75% correspondence.
(b) There is no correspondence.
(c) There is 100% correspondence.
(d) There is a 65% correspondence.

4. What does the author say is the hallmark of a psychopath?
(a) Delusions.
(b) A stunning lack of conscience.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Mental anguish.

5. How does the author describe the psychopath's typical lifestyle?
(a) Focused and intense.
(b) Planned and organized.
(c) Driven.
(d) Unstable and aimless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychopath does the author claim commanded a nation?

2. What does the author advise readers not to do with his book?

3. What did Ted Bundy claim was responsible for his murders?

4. What is the author's objective in writing this book?

5. Why do socio-biologists claim that the number of psychopaths must be increasing?

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