Deck 9: Terrorism

Question 1

Which President stated these words: "is a different war from any our nation has ever faced,a war on many fronts,against terrorists who operate in more than 60 different countries.And this is a war that must be fought not only overseas but also here at home."

A) President Carter
B) President Bush
C) President Clinton
D) none of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Mujahideen means _____ who fight a Holy War for the people.

A) holy warriors
B) pathway to enlightenment
C) political allies
D) violent call to

Answer 2

A

Question 3

We tend to be more ______ of things that aren't likely to happen and surprisingly ______ about dangers that are more likely to occur.

A) fearful, unconcerned
B) unconcerned, fearful
C) interested, intrigued
D) understanding, empathetic

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The term guerrilla literally means ______ and originated in the Napoleonic wars after the French army invaded Spain as part of Napoleon' s attempt to conquer Europe.

A) fear war
B) unwarranted war
C) little war
D) big war

Question 5

Boko Haram,is an Islamic terrorist group that is largely based in ______ and has been inspired by ISIS and,in fact,has pledged allegiance to ISIS.

A) Africa
B) Pakistan
C) Iraq
D) Iran

Question 6

The Romans often used state terrorism to protect their interests and maintain their empire.One of the more well-known examples concerns the slave revolt led by the gladiator ______.

A) Zisa
B) Conan
C) Spartacus
D) Zeus

Question 7

ISIS is a terrorist group that emerged out of Al Qaeda in ______ and expanded into Syria in 2011 after the start of the Syrian civil war.

A) Pakistan
B) UAE
C) Iran
D) Iraq

Question 8

Terrorism is difficult to define because ______.

A) It encompasses many different types of behavior.
B) It is continuously evolving.
C) It depends in part on your point of view.
D) all of the above

Question 9

Terrorists tend to define themselves as ______.

A) crusaders
B) God's chosen ones
C) Infidels
D) warriors

Question 10

Nowadays,the most frequent victims of terrorism are ______.

A) soft targets
B) hard targets
C) Americans
D) Middle Eastern Countries

Question 11

Guerrilla warfare is also known as ______.

A) big warfare
B) terrorism
C) both A and B
D) none of the above

Question 12

______ concerns acts that are perpetrated because of some sort of mental illness.

A) criminal terrorism
B) pathological terrorism
C) political terrorism
D) none of the above

Question 13

A lone wolf attacks the perpetrator and is a ______ who is acting on his or her own.

A) group
B) single individual
C) state
D) legal alien

Question 14

Which definition is the correct definition of terrorism?

A) the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives
B) premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience
C) the use of unexpected violence to intimidate or coerce in the pursuit of political or social objectives
D) all the above

Question 15

Simply put,the purpose of all terrorism is to ______.

A) repress political opposition
B) overthrow a government
C) change a government around a policy or law
D) change ideas
E) none of the above

Question 16

Ted Kaczynski is an example of a(n)______.

A) international terrorist
B) domestic terrorist
C) white collar criminal
D) regime terrorist

Question 17

______,as the name implies,refers to terrorism committed to achieve some illicit goal or to protect an illegal operation.

A) criminal terrorism
B) pathological terrorism
C) political terrorism
D) regime terrorism

Question 18

In The United States of Jihad,terrorism expert Peter Bergen writes that since 9/11,"______ people in the United States have been charged with some kind of Jihadist terrorist crime ranging in seriousness from murder to sending small sums of money to a terrorist group."

A) 330
B) 3000
C) 3300
D) 30

Question 19

The KKK is an example of a(n)______.

A) social revolutionary terrorist group
B) right-wing domestic terrorist group
C) nationalist-separatist terrorist group
D) none of the above

Question 20

Terrorists engage in extreme acts of ______ because they think it will help them to achieve some goal.

A) propaganda
B) violence
C) rhetoric
D) none of the above

Question 21

Discuss the differences between terrorism and guerrilla warfare.

Question 22

Violence unleashed by radical environmental groups cannot be equated with terrorism.

Question 23

Discuss the difference between hard targets and soft targets.

Question 24

Some Muslims do not feel that Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization or that Osama bin Laden was a terrorist.Rather,they perceive them as heroes fighting against what they see as a powerful and unjust enemy: the United States and other Western nations.

Question 25

Terrorism is a continuously evolving phenomenon.

Question 26

In hindsight,pre 9/11 Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks-terrible as they were-were only the prelude to far worse violence.

Question 27

What the reasons for the difficulty in defining the term terrorism?

Question 28

Government is not capable of committing terrorist acts.

Question 29

Guerrilla war is also sometimes called low-intensity warfare or insurgency warfare.

Question 30

ISIS stands for Islamic State in Syria sometimes referred to as ISIL.