Practice Test Two
Directions: Below are 15 multiple-choice questions to give you an idea of what the questions are going to look like on the second test. The questions are based upon your lectures, but are not meant to be comprehensive. Click here for the answers.
1. Positivism
refers to uncovering underlying rules and regulations that create and maintain
_________ phenomena.
a. uniform patterns of
b. scientific
c. socialized
2. According to
__________ witches can raise storms, cause sterility, bring down lightening,
effect court decisions, transport themselves at will and cause death in
general. They can have sex with demons and produce demon children.
a. Harry Potter and Yellow Toilet
b. Red Storm Sinking
c. the Malleus Maleficarum
3. _______ referred
to a mark of identification made by the devil to seal a compact. The mark is
not always the same shape or in the same place. Often it is located in a hidden
part of the body such as under the eye lid or armpit.
a. Devil’s mark
b. Satan’s seed
c. Toe corns
4. The _________
suggests that the effects of consuming bad mushrooms, herbs like deadly
nightshade or henbane, or bufotenine from the skin of some toads could have
affected people’s minds and contributed to the “witch craze” phenomena of
Europe.
a. disease theory
b. drug theory
c. mass hysteria theory
5. __________
advocates manipulating the authority and resources of the criminal justice
system to achieve cultural or social goals.
a. social justice
b. cumulative justice
c. representative justice
6. According to
____________, criminals are organically inferior to non-criminals. He explained
criminal behavior as the result of environmental pressures imposed upon a
low-grade human organism.
A. Earnest T. Bass
B. Earnest Hooton
C. Yu Bee Hooton
D. Thomas Lydian
7. _________ holds
that criminals go through some rational process in determining whether to commit
a crime or not.
a. rational choice
b. existentialism
c. conflict
8. ___________ a
relative preponderance of mesoderm tissue: they are bulky and often commit
physically oriented crimes.
A. Ectomorphs
B. Endomorphs
C. Mesomorphs
9. __________
killers are thrill seeking murders who get excitement and
sometimes sexual pleasure from their acts.
a. visionary
b. mission-oriented
c. hedonistic
10. _______
formulated a body type/criminal correlation theory in his book "Varieties of
Delinquent Youth" in 1949. His approach expanded on the work of Kretschmer who
identified three distinct body types common among criminals.
A. Idi Amimean
B. Clark Kent
C. William Sheldon
D. Tyrone Powers
11. ________ are
individuals which extensive development of the digestive viscera. They have a
tendency to put on weight easily.
A. Ectomorphs
B. Endomorphs
C. Mesomorphs
12. In its most
simplistic terms, ___________ is the doctrine that human decisions should
promote good consequences for the largest amount of the population.
A. utilitarianism
B. Existentialism
C. Conflict
13. ______________
cues refers to the extent to which the burglar could be observed in the target
home by neighbors or passersby during the commission of the crime.
a. surveillability
b. accessibility
c. occupancy
14. People
determine their actions based upon evaluations made from ascertainable facts
that could predict levels of pain and pleasure which vary from individual to
individual. This variance required what Bentham called a ____________.
A. Modem of individuality
B. Base line level of prediction
C. Interpersonal comparison of utility
15. __________ were
those people who had inferior biological characteristics that, when combined
with the social rigors of modern society, increased their probability to violate
the law. These people were considered evolutionary throwbacks which were
designed for a more simple and brutal world.
A. Yuppies
B. ciminaloids
C. born criminals