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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be crazy?
(a) Universities.
(b) Mental health facilities.
(c) Research hospitals.
(d) Correctional facilities.
2. What need is sometimes satisfied for the psychopath by taking drugs?
(a) The need for relaxation.
(b) The need for belonging.
(c) The need for excitement.
(d) The need to forget.
3. Why do concrete rewards override negative future consequences in the psychopath's mind?
(a) Future consequences are unimportant.
(b) Future consequences may not come to pass.
(c) Future consequences are distant.
(d) Future consequences are vague.
4. What does Hervey Cleckley say the psychopath is incapable of understanding?
(a) Other people's behavior.
(b) Personal values.
(c) Society's rules.
(d) Mental illness.
5. How does the author describe the psychopath's typical lifestyle?
(a) Focused and intense.
(b) Planned and organized.
(c) Unstable and aimless.
(d) Driven.
Short Answer Questions
1. What opened Elyse's eyes to Jeffrey's true character?
2. What is the difficulty in using empathy, egocentricity, or guilt as determinants in a diagnosis?
3. What physician who murdered his family was portrayed in the movie Fatal Vision?
4. What emotions are the mainsprings of conscience for most people?
5. What was Elsa's first clue to Dan's criminal activity?
Short Essay Questions
1. Without an internal motivation to abide by society's rules, what is the psychopath free to do?
2. Why are psychopathic killers often judged legally sane?
3. What does William March list as some reasons good people do not readily recognize psychopathy?
4. What signs did Helen have that her preadolescent daughter, Alice, was "off"?
5. How are psychopaths often able to pass themselves off as experts?
6. What distinguishes psychopaths from the mentally ill?
7. What distinguishes psychopaths who become criminals?
8. Why has the author decided that it's important to write about the technical topic of psychopathy at a level that the public can understand?
9. How do psychopaths tend to view themselves in relation to others?
10. Why does the author claim it is not surprising that psychopaths commit more violent acts than other criminals?
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