Chapter 23 Flashcards
01) Terrorism is the use of illegitimate violence by sub-state groups to inspire fear.
a. True
b. False
a. True
) The Iranian ‘Islamic Revolution’ of 1979 was just another typical event in transnational terrorism.
a. True
b. False
b. False
03) The term Al Qaeda means ‘The Base’.
a. True
b. False
a. True
04) Everyone agrees that the defence of culture or identity is the primary motivation for globalized terrorist violence.
a. True
b. False
b. False
05) All terrorism scholars agree that the ultimate purpose for which violence is applied is the seizing and remoulding of the controls of a state.
a. True
b. False
a. True
06) Digital videos suggest that terrorists are already conducting “distance learning” through what mechanism:
a. “virtual jihad academy”
b. long-distance phone calls
c. civil society
d. military operations
a. “virtual jihad academy”
07) In what decade did terrorism become a transnational phenomenon?
a. 1940s
b. 1960s
c. 1970s
d. 1990s
b. 1960s
08) What factor does this chapter say has improved terrorist capabilities?
a. Increased international sympathy.
b. Charismatic leadership (i.e. Osama bin Laden).
c. Technologies associated with globalization.
d. Expanded recruitment base due to oppression and poverty.
c. Technologies associated with globalization.
09) What was termed ‘the oxygen that sustains terrorism’?
a. International drug-trafficking.
b. Radical ideologies.
c. Poverty and oppression.
d. Media coverage.
d. Media coverage.
10) What organization conducted the hostage taking at the 1972 Munich Olympics?
a. Black September
b. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
c. Hezbollah
d. Al Qaeda
a. Black September
11) What was considered the ‘decade of terrorism’?
a. 1960s
b. 1970s
c. 1980s
d. 1990s
c. 1980s
12) Which culture is not considered by Huntington to qualify as a ‘civilization’?
a. Latin American
b. African
c. Hindu
d. Slavic-Orthodox
b. African
13) Critics of Huntington focus on:
a. American military power
b. the divide between Western and Islamic civilization
c. the divide between Confucian and Islamic civilization
d. fault lines within Islamic civilization
d. fault lines within Islamic civilization
14) What is the word used to describe a rudimentary radioactive bomb?
a. Molotov cocktail
b. Chemical weapon
c. Dirty bomb
d. Makeshift device
c. Dirty bomb
15) What term is used to describe when rules and rights enshrined in the principle of due process are either wilfully misinterpreted or completely disregarded?
a. Rhetoric
b. Political justice
c. Pedagogy
d. Fanaticism
b. Political justice
