Ray is suspicious and has the unrelenting delusion that agents of a foreign government are following him with the intention of killing him. If Ray were administered the MMPI-2, you expect that he would have a high score on the scale measuring

a. hysteria.
b. paranoia.
c. ego identity.
d. narrow-mindedness


Answer: b.

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