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Test Bank: Terrorism & Homeland Security


Chapter 1— Defining Terrorism in Modern History

TRUE/FALSE


1. Terrorism is considered a violation of law in all nations.

ANS: F REF: p. 4 OBJ: 1



2. The Taliban and al Qaeda are one and the same organization.



ANS: F REF: p. 5 OBJ: 2



3. Theology gained greater appreciation by the masses during the Enlightenment.



ANS: F REF: p. 6 OBJ: 3



4. Terrorism came into existence during the American Revolution.



ANS: F REF: p. 6 - 10 OBJ: 3, 4, and 5



5. The French Revolution was much more violent than the American Revolution.

ANS: T REF: p. 6 - 10 OBJ: 4



6. Terrorist attacks occur more frequently in democracies than in countries with any
other form of government.

,ANS: T REF: p. 7 OBJ: 3



7. Guerilla warfare originated in Spain.



ANS: F REF: p. 5 and 9 OBJ: 4



8. European capitalists of the 1800s opposed all forms of socialism and anarchy.



ANS: T REF: p. 10 OBJ: 3 and 6



9. Modern terrorism surfaced with violent anarchists in the late 1800s.



ANS: T REF: p. 5 and 10 OBJ: 4 and 5



10. German born immigrant Most’s philosophy of the bomb is a call for violence to
produce

change in government.



ANS: T REF: p. 13 OBJ: 7 and 8



11. The definition of terrorism fluctuates according to the interests of the group defining the

term.



ANS: T REF: p. 5 and 17 OBJ: 1



12. Russia was the site of The Easter Rising of 1916.

,ANS: F REF: p. 22 OBJ: 8



13. Guerilla tactics were used throughout the Napoleonic Wars.



ANS: T REF: p. 5 OBJ: 4



14. European governments and capitalists came to fear class revolution as a series

of uprising swept across Europe in 1848.



ANS: T REF: p. 25 OBJ: 3, 4, 5, and 7



15. David Bell believes that total war began with the 1789 French Revolution.



ANS: T REF: p. 26 OBJ: 5




MULTIPLE CHOICE



1. “Selective terrorism” as strategy was developed by __________.

a. Michael Collins of the IRA

b. Karl Marx

c. Karl Heinzen

d. Peter Prokoptin



ANS: a REF: p. 1 - 5 OBJ: 8, 9

, 2. The violence of the French Revolutionary period is colloquially known as _______.

a. Bloody Sunday

b. The Reign of Terror

c. The Rule

d. Black October



ANS: b REF: p. 8 - 9 OBJ: 3, 4, 5



3. __________ do not support centralized control of the economy.

a. Communists

b. Socialists

c. Anarchists

d. Capitalists


ANS: c REF: p. 10 - 13 OBJ: 6



4. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) developed out of a __________ desire.

a. Nationalistic

b. Socialistic

c. Economic

d. Capitalistic


ANS: a REF: p. 15 - 16 OBJ: 8



5. Modern terrorism, as defined in the text, surfaced with violent anarchists in the late

_____.