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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 was Elsa's first clue to Dan's criminal activity?
(a) He confessed to minor thievery.
(b) He had cases of unwrapped tape recorders and TVs.
(c) He had an unusual amount of money.
(d) She saw his picture in the post office.

2. Why do socio-biologists claim that the number of psychopaths must be increasing?
(a) Psychopaths are being more accurately diagnosed.
(b) Psychopaths produce large numbers of children.
(c) Psychopaths make other people psychopathic.
(d) Social problems that lead to psychopathy are increasing.

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

4. How are psychopaths unlike psychotics?
(a) Unlike psychotics, psychopaths are rational.
(b) Unlike psychotics, psychopaths are emotional.
(c) Unlike psychotics, psychopaths are intelligent.
(d) Unlike psychotics, psychopaths are distressed.

5. What impression do astute observers sometimes get about psychopaths?
(a) They are not talkative.
(b) They are unusually altruistic.
(c) They seem to be play-acting.
(d) They are not easily angered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be crazy?

2. What need is sometimes satisfied for the psychopath by taking drugs?

3. What was the first thing the author noticed about Ray when he met him?

4. How many psychopaths are estimated to be in North America?

5. What do obligations and commitments mean to psychopaths?

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