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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Can Anything Be Done?, pg 192-206.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be sane but evil?
(a) Correctional facilities.
(b) Research hospitals.
(c) Mental health facilities.
(d) Universities.

2. What event in the life of Lawrencia Bembenek did 300 people gather to celebrate?
(a) Her acquittal.
(b) Her conviction.
(c) Her escape from prison.
(d) Her extradition to the U.S. from Canada.

3. What percentage of offenders who kill law enforcement officers are psychopathic?
(a) Seventy-five.
(b) Forty-four.
(c) Sixty-two.
(d) Ninety-eight.

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

5. What physician who murdered his family was portrayed in the movie Fatal Vision?
(a) Gary Tison.
(b) John Wayne Gacy.
(c) Kenneth Bianchi.
(d) Jeffrey MacDonald.

Short Answer Questions

1. How secure are psychopaths in their own worldview?

2. What do psychopaths commit twice as often as other criminal offenders?

3. For what does Robert Lindner claim psychopaths strive?

4. What are the motives of a psychopath in a social interchange?

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

(see the answer key)

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