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

2. How did Clifford Olson become rich?
(a) He embezzled from the firm where he worked.
(b) He married a rich woman and murdered her.
(c) He created a Ponzi scheme and bilked investors.
(d) Authorities paid him to show the burial places of his victims.

3. How did a psychopathic thief believe that his victims were better off?
(a) They got to be in the newspaper headlines.
(b) They got to replace their possessions.
(c) They would collect more from insurance than their possessions were worth.
(d) He hadn't done them any physical harm.

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

5. Why does William March say that good people are rarely suspicious?
(a) They don't pay attention to warning signs.
(b) They aren't very intelligent.
(c) They don't understand psychopathy.
(d) They cannot imagine others doing things good people would not do.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are psychopaths unlike psychotics?

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

3. What does the author say is the hallmark of a psychopath?

4. Why is it important for parole boards to understand psychopathy?

5. What impression do astute observers sometimes get about psychopaths?

(see the answer key)

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