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Madoff's clients included director Steven Spielberg, actors John Malkovich and Kevin Bacon, and the Harvard University Endowment, among others. Madoff used his position and his clients' names to snare more victims. This pattern approximates what type of criminal?
 
  a. A criminaloid
 b. An exploiter
 c. A financial chiseler
  d. An android

Question 2

Which one of the following was not a finding of Conger's research on economic stress and the family?
 
  a. As parents become more emotionally distressed, they tend to interact with one another and their children in a more irritable and less supportive fashion.
  b. Marital stability and consistent parenting increase children's risk of suffering developmental problems.
  c. Economic stress processes decrease children's ability to function in a competent manner in school and with peers.
  d. Parents, who remain supportive and demonstrate effective problem-solving skills in spite of hardship, shield their children and themselves from adverse consequences of economic stress.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

B



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