PSC Exam 3 study guide questions
well answered to pass
Under due process of law, alleged criminals can be tried more than once for the same crime if
new evidence becomes available. - correct answer ✔✔F
The Italian handling of the Red Brigade is considered a successful counterterrorism story
because the group was neutralized before they could cause any damage or casualties. - correct
answer ✔✔F
Terrorism's goals are to make governments look weak and inept, and to prepare the way for a
revolution. - correct answer ✔✔T
Compared to all European nations, the income tax of Americans is much higher. - correct answer
✔✔F
Transnational terrorism most often involves groups from two or more countries cooperating
together. - correct answer ✔✔T
Aristotle, Madison, and Marx all saw the perennial tension between rich and poor as a key
problem in political life. - correct answer ✔✔T
Edmund Burke believed that lofty concepts such as liberty and equality endangered public order
and triggered the French Revolution. - correct answer ✔✔T
Tocqueville argued that economic improvement led to revolution because once people saw that
some improvement was possible, they inevitably yearned for more. - correct answer ✔✔T
,Blowback refers to the unintended deaths of innocent civilians in a war zone. - correct answer
✔✔F
Since becoming the sole superpower in the world, the United States has gained an even greater
share of GDP. - correct answer ✔✔F
To qualify as a superpower, a state has to have a full range of power capabilities, including not
only military muscle but also economic, political, diplomatic, and even moral clout. - correct
answer ✔✔T
Revolutions are, by definition, violent political phenomenon. - correct answer ✔✔F
Containment was authored by a man named X who was later identified as George F. Kennan. -
correct answer ✔✔T
Major issues of public policy demonstrate that the five core values of security, prosperity,
equality, liberty, and justice often come into conflict with one another. - correct answer ✔✔T
Although Americans hate terrorism, they do sympathize with the ethnic communities from
which terrorists emerge. - correct answer ✔✔F
the national government can use the power of prior restraint at any time to prevent the press
from reporting negative things that it does not want to be made public. - correct answer ✔✔F
some psychologists see war and aggression as normal human responses to the environment. -
correct answer ✔✔T
Former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote that, over time, Americans have become
less willing to accept violence and crime. - correct answer ✔✔F
, The 9/11 terrorist attacks and the bombing of Pearl Harbor were both undertaken by an
established state. - correct answer ✔✔F
No industrialized state has ever decriminalized both drugs and prostitution. - correct answer
✔✔F
Although liberals and conservatives agree that equality is important in some sense, they do not
agree on what kind of equality is necessary or how much inequality is desirable. - correct
answer ✔✔T
According to Jefferson, a government's legitimacy can be traced to the ability to protect the
freedoms of the individual and how it conforms to the will of the majority. - correct answer
✔✔T
The storming of the Bastille brought an end to the French Revolution. - correct answer ✔✔F
All members of the United Nations have a representative on the U.N. Security Council. - correct
answer ✔✔F
France played her role in the European balance of power as the keeper of the balance. - correct
answer ✔✔F
Begun in the early 1950s, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the precursor to
the European Union (EU) of today. - correct answer ✔✔F
Terrorists typically feel that society has cheated them. - correct answer ✔✔T
well answered to pass
Under due process of law, alleged criminals can be tried more than once for the same crime if
new evidence becomes available. - correct answer ✔✔F
The Italian handling of the Red Brigade is considered a successful counterterrorism story
because the group was neutralized before they could cause any damage or casualties. - correct
answer ✔✔F
Terrorism's goals are to make governments look weak and inept, and to prepare the way for a
revolution. - correct answer ✔✔T
Compared to all European nations, the income tax of Americans is much higher. - correct answer
✔✔F
Transnational terrorism most often involves groups from two or more countries cooperating
together. - correct answer ✔✔T
Aristotle, Madison, and Marx all saw the perennial tension between rich and poor as a key
problem in political life. - correct answer ✔✔T
Edmund Burke believed that lofty concepts such as liberty and equality endangered public order
and triggered the French Revolution. - correct answer ✔✔T
Tocqueville argued that economic improvement led to revolution because once people saw that
some improvement was possible, they inevitably yearned for more. - correct answer ✔✔T
,Blowback refers to the unintended deaths of innocent civilians in a war zone. - correct answer
✔✔F
Since becoming the sole superpower in the world, the United States has gained an even greater
share of GDP. - correct answer ✔✔F
To qualify as a superpower, a state has to have a full range of power capabilities, including not
only military muscle but also economic, political, diplomatic, and even moral clout. - correct
answer ✔✔T
Revolutions are, by definition, violent political phenomenon. - correct answer ✔✔F
Containment was authored by a man named X who was later identified as George F. Kennan. -
correct answer ✔✔T
Major issues of public policy demonstrate that the five core values of security, prosperity,
equality, liberty, and justice often come into conflict with one another. - correct answer ✔✔T
Although Americans hate terrorism, they do sympathize with the ethnic communities from
which terrorists emerge. - correct answer ✔✔F
the national government can use the power of prior restraint at any time to prevent the press
from reporting negative things that it does not want to be made public. - correct answer ✔✔F
some psychologists see war and aggression as normal human responses to the environment. -
correct answer ✔✔T
Former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote that, over time, Americans have become
less willing to accept violence and crime. - correct answer ✔✔F
, The 9/11 terrorist attacks and the bombing of Pearl Harbor were both undertaken by an
established state. - correct answer ✔✔F
No industrialized state has ever decriminalized both drugs and prostitution. - correct answer
✔✔F
Although liberals and conservatives agree that equality is important in some sense, they do not
agree on what kind of equality is necessary or how much inequality is desirable. - correct
answer ✔✔T
According to Jefferson, a government's legitimacy can be traced to the ability to protect the
freedoms of the individual and how it conforms to the will of the majority. - correct answer
✔✔T
The storming of the Bastille brought an end to the French Revolution. - correct answer ✔✔F
All members of the United Nations have a representative on the U.N. Security Council. - correct
answer ✔✔F
France played her role in the European balance of power as the keeper of the balance. - correct
answer ✔✔F
Begun in the early 1950s, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the precursor to
the European Union (EU) of today. - correct answer ✔✔F
Terrorists typically feel that society has cheated them. - correct answer ✔✔T
