1.1 Multiple Choice Questions
1) The reduction of air travel and avoiding certain cities after 9/11 corresponds with which of the following reasons it is important to understand terrorism?
- A) There is no quick and easy solution to terrorism
- B) American has a preoccupation with protecting the homeland
- C) Terrorism has become transnational and global
- D) Terrorism can be adopted at frightening speed
Answer: C
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Objective: State six reasons why we should understand terrorism.
Level: Intermediate
2) Which of the following is NOT one the reasons for needing to understand terrorism?
- A) Terrorism's impact is only regional
- B) There is no quick and easy solution to terrorism
- C) Terrorism has become transnational and global
- D) Terrorism can be adopted at frightening speed
Answer: A
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Objective: State six reasons why we should understand terrorism.
Level: Basic
3) The belief in Allah and Muhammad as a prophet is which religion?
- A) Muslim
- B) Islam
- C) Taliban
- D) Hamas
Answer: B
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Objective: State six reasons why we should understand terrorism.
Level: Basic
4) Which of the following is the radical Islamic group that straddles the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan?
- A) Taliban
- B) Hamas
- C) al-Qaeda
- D) Muslim
Answer: A
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Objective: State six reasons why we should understand terrorism.
Level: Intermediate
5) This type of terrorist has no formal connection to and doesn't receive material supply from a terrorist movement, but has a psychological affinity with one:
- A) lone wolf
- B) international
- C) homegrown
- D) domestic
Answer: C
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Objective: State six reasons why we should understand terrorism.
Level: Intermediate
6) The concept that terrorist attacks are changing and focusing on the destruction of infrastructures is called:
- A) Homegrown terrorists
- B) New War
- C) Jihad
- D) Black Swan events
Answer: B
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Objective: State six reasons why we should understand terrorism.
Level: Intermediate
7) Which would be considered an example of system disruption?
- A) banking and finance hacking
- B) oil pipelines destruction
- C) electrical systems stoppage
- D) all of the above
Answer: D
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Objective: State six reasons why we should understand terrorism.
Level: Basic
8) Early terrorism in the United States was typically:
- A) very deadly
- B) racial, labor, or anarchist related
- C) motivated by religion
- D) well planned and organized
Answer: B
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Objective: Trace the history of key events in terrorism from the nineteenth century to 9/11/2001.
Level: Intermediate
9) Which U.S. organization sought to overthrow the federal government by bombing the Capital Building and the Pentagon in 1970 and 1971, respectively?
- A) Black Panther Party
- B) Students for a Democratic Society
- C) Black September Organization
- D) Weather Underground
Answer: D
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Objective: Trace the history of key events in terrorism from the nineteenth century to 9/11/2001.
Level: Intermediate
10) During the French Revolution, Robspierre was substantially responsible for the period within the revolution known as:
- A) Revolt in France
- B) Terror in France
- C) Reign of Terror
- D) War of Terror
Answer: C
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Objective: Trace the history of key events in terrorism from the nineteenth century to 9/11/2001.
Level: Basic
11) Which of the following is typically associated with the "new" definition of terrorism?
- A) use of guillotine to instill fear
- B) specific political, social, and economic related
- C) goals were limited and could be resolved by negotiation
- D) religious belief undergirds the violence
Answer: D
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Objective: Trace the history of key events in terrorism from the nineteenth century to 9/11/2001.
Level: Intermediate
12) This type of terrorism focuses violence on specific targets:
- A) specific terrorism
- B) international terrorism
- C) general terrorism
- D) religious terrorism
Answer: A
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Contrast individual and cultural perspectives of terrorism.
Level: Basic
13) Hezbollah is a Muslim group that is simultaneously viewed as a political organization, terrorist group and a(n):
- A) force multiplier
- B) militia
- C) ally
- D) religious group
Answer: B
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Objective: Explain why there are so many definitions of terrorism.
Level: Intermediate
14) Hezbollah receiving arms, training, money, and intelligence from Syria and Iran, is an example of.
- A) the Bermuda Triangle of Terrorism
- B) violent extremism
- C) a force multiplier
- D) an FTO
Answer: C
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Objective: Explain why there are so many definitions of terrorism.
Level: Intermediate
15) FTO stands for:
- A) federal terrorist organization
- B) foreign terrorist organization
- C) funding, training, and optimization
- D) feuding throughout organizations
Answer: B
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Objective: Explain why there are so many definitions of terrorism.
Level: Basic
16) Carlos Bledsoe converted to Islam, changed his name to Abdulhakim Muhammad and trained in Yemen in a terrorist camp. This process is known as:
- A) radicalization
- B) internationalism
- C) anarchism
- D) system disruption
Answer: A
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Objective: Explain why there are so many definitions of terrorism.
Level: Intermediate
