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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, pg 219-220.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which part of the brain is more emotional and processes events simultaneously?
(a) Neither: they both work together.
(b) The right hemisphere.
(c) The frontal lobe.
(d) The left hemisphere.

3. Who is vulnerable to the machinations of psychopaths?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Gullible people.
(c) Innocent people.
(d) Naive people.

4. What effort of the criminal justice system does the author say is vain?
(a) Rehabilitation of psychopaths.
(b) Protection of psychopaths.
(c) Punishment of psychopaths.
(d) Confinement of psychopaths.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were second-degree murder charges against Roxanne Murray dropped?

2. Who normally serves on parole boards?

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

4. What often impresses people about psychopaths' discussion of technical subjects?

5. What buzzword regarding persistent offenders is popular with politicians?

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