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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Profile: Feelings and Relationships , pg 33-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ray trap the author by showing him a knife?
(a) Ray made the author a conspirator in his stabbing.
(b) Ray coerced the author into pleading his case.
(c) Ray established that the author would not turn him in.
(d) Ray forced the author to obey him.

2. What question first raised by Ray has stayed with the doctor throughout his career?
(a) What in the psychopath's mentality gives him the power to override reality?
(b) How can Ray claim he was my assistant?
(c) What did I do to turn Ray against me?
(d) Am I crazy or is Ray?

3. What phrase did Alice's parents use to describe her behavior as a child?
(a) "She was unpredictable."
(b) "She was impulsive."
(c) "Something was off."
(d) "She was mean."

4. What term is often inappropriately applied to psychopaths?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Paranoid.
(c) Schizophrenic.
(d) Psychotic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How exactly does psychopathy correspond with troubled childhood?

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

3. What does Hervey Cleckley say the psychopath is incapable of understanding?

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

5. What was the verdict in the case of Edward Gein?

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