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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 causes suffering for a psychopath?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Grief at his victims' unhappiness.
(c) Not getting what he wants.
(d) Remorse for his own behavior.

2. What do psychopaths feel for their victims?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Total indifference.
(c) Intense hatred.
(d) Unusual interest.

3. Why did one psychologist run off with her psychopathic patient?
(a) She wanted to do field work on his methods.
(b) She believed his promises.
(c) She was trapping him into revealing himself.
(d) She was studying his case.

4. How is psychological denial useful?
(a) It protects the mind from background noise.
(b) It protects the mind from distraction.
(c) It protects the mind from unwanted details.
(d) It protects the mind from painful knowledge.

5. What does the author believe Grigson's approach lacks?
(a) Careful examination and testing.
(b) Sufficient acquaintance with the defendant.
(c) Sufficient study of the evidence.
(d) Sufficient allowance for organic brain damage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author see as the antidote to inaccurate diagnoses?

2. Why is it important to avoid power struggles with a psychopath?

3. Who do psychopaths typically blame when punished for their misconduct?

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

5. What is oppositional defiant disorder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What warnings does the author give to those who are trying to deal with psychopaths in their lives?

2. Why is the typical advice to quit indulging misbehaving youth and get them into therapy considered by the author to be doomed to failure?

3. What "uncanny" ability of psychopaths helps them find potential victims?

4. What attitude do white-collar psychopaths take toward their victims?

5. Who is Dr. Death, and why was he given that name?

6. Why are nurturing, kind-hearted women ideal victims for psychopaths?

7. Why is the option of ignoring the presence of psychopathy in children no longer available?

8. Why is it difficult to identify psychopathy in children?

9. What is it about the speech of psychopaths that may reveal the condition to an astute observer?

10. Why is a bilateral brain, with each side having separate spheres of influence, more efficient?

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