Crim 475 Midterm Q&A 2022/2023

1. Terrorism is a subjective and nebulous issue. It has different meanings in different times and in different contexts. - Answer - True 2. The definition of terrorism fluctuates according to the interests of the group defining the term. - Answer - True 3. Terrorism has communication strategies. In that regard, terrorists send different messages to different target groups with their terrorist activities. - Answer - True 4. Terrorism is not a simple phenomenon. There might be many reasons such as political, psychological, sociological, and economic that may have caused people to join terrorist groups and get radicalized. - Answer - True 5. The social context surrounding the term terrorism influences how it is defined. - Answer - True 6. Which of the following is one of the very earliest forms of terrorist organization? - Answer - The Sicarii Zealots 7. Thuggee(s) cult was one of the most long-lasting terrorist organizations in the history that centered in India. They worshipped and sacrificed humans for Goddess/Mother Kali. - Answer - True 8. One fact that influenced the adoption of violent action by anarchists was the invention of dynamite. - Answer - True 9. Russia was the site of The Easter Rising of 1916. - Answer - False 10. Hunter, written by William Luther Pierce, is a fictional account of a violent right-wing extremist who decides to launch a terrorist campaign. - Answer - True 11. According to Schmid, terrorism is a __________; that is, terrorism is defined by different people within vacillating social and political realities. - Answer - social construct 12. "If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing needs of the patrie" Whom does this quotation belong to? - Answer - Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre 13. "If to kill is always a crime, then it is forbidden equally to all; if it is not crime, then it is permitted equally to all. We do not desire any killing, any murder, but if our enemies are not of the same mind, if they can justify murder, even going so far as to claim a special privilege in the matter, the nec