Ben set up an elaborate scheme to mine gold in the rockies. he had a large town meeting and made a presentation of his stock. the shares were only $5 each, and everyone could afford them. he showed pictures of the mine and explained how the company expected to gross $100 million each month. as it turns out, he was a terrific con artist who had made several "successful" proposals such as this in towns across america in the last couple of years. he would be most likely to meet criteria of

antisocial personality disorder.                        

Explanation:

                Antisocial personality disorder may be defined as a mental condition where a person have a long term pattern of exploiting or manipulating and violating the rights of other people without any regret for committing the fraud. This behavior of persons may cause serious problems in the relationships or at work and is often termed as a con or criminal.

              In the context, Ben is making a false statement to the people of extracting gold from mines in the Rockies and thus showing that he is expecting a revenue of 100 million dollar each month. For this, he is asking the people to buy the stocks which cost $5 each.  Ben is con artist and is a fooling the people and is trying to make money by fraud.

Thus Ben meets the criteria of antisocial personality disorder.  

the correct answer is d