Chapter 4: Civil Liberties and Securing the Homeland

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was created to address the concern that ______.

A. recent legislation was resulting in overspending

B. security-related laws were violating citizens’ personal freedoms

C. the United States was at risk for cyberattacks

D. the Department of Homeland Security didn’t have enough power

Learning Objective: 4-3: Evaluate the importance of balancing civil liberties protections and domestic security necessities.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Opening Viewpoint: Freedom of Reporting and Security Priorities

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. From the late 1700s to the mid-1940s, numerous laws were passed to address security concerns in the United States that resulted in ______.

A. strong criticism and opposition by some citizens

B. consensus that the laws were necessary

C. consensus that the laws were too far-reaching

D. swift votes by Congress to repeal all such laws

Learning Objective: 4-1: Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Security and Liberty: The Historical Context

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Citizens strongly opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts for numerous reasons, but the main opposition was due to its infringement of ______ Amendment freedoms.

A. First

B. Second

C. Third

D. Fourth

Learning Objective: 4-1: Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Early Republic and the Alien and Sedition Acts

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Why was the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus suspended during the Civil War?

A. the Alien and Sedition Acts allowed it.

B. Abraham Lincoln created an executive order to do so.

C. Article III, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution allows it during instances of rebellion.

D. the Supreme Court ordered it to take place.

Learning Objective: 4-1: Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Civil War and Suspension of Habeas Corpus

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. ______ refer to several periods in U.S. history when perceived threats from anarchist, communist, and other leftist subversives created a generalized climate of political anxiety.

A. Sedition Eras

B. Homeland Strikes

C. Red Scares

D. Alien Acts

Learning Objective: 4-1: Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Communism and the Red Scares

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The First Red Scare resulted in Woodrow Wilson authorizing the ______.

A. HUAC

B. Internment camps

C. CPUSA

D. Palmer Raids

Learning Objective: 4-1: Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The First Red Scare

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Congress established the ______ at the height of the Great Depression to stop the spread of leftist sentiment.

A. Department of the Interior

B. House Un-American Activities Committee

C. CPUSA

D. Ways and Means Committee

Learning Objective: 4-1: Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Second Red Scare

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Which Republican senator held a series of televised hearings to investigate allegations of communist spying in the United States?

A. Frank Carlson

B. Harry Darby

C. Joseph McCarthy

D. Richard Nixon

Learning Objective: 4-1: Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Third Red Scare

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the War Relocation Authority, resulting in ______.

A. 100,000 Japanese being forced into internment camps

B. the infamous McCarthy hearings

C. the attacks on Pearl Harbor

D. the establishment of HUAC

Learning Objective: 4-1: Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Wartime Internment Camps

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Counterterrorist experts contend that practical security objectives must prevent terrorist conspiracies, deter violent action, implement effective laws, and minimize ______.

A. financial impact to trade partners

B. travel disruptions to hostile states

C. harm to people and property

D. the workload on the government

Learning Objective: 4-2: Evaluate the importance of balancing civil liberties protections and domestic security necessities.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Practical Considerations: Civil Liberty and Government Responses

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. The U.S. government rarely seeks to officially suppress or otherwise regulate media content and will only seek judicial intervention when ______.

A. there is criticism of the President

B. the information would divide Congress

C. national security is at stake

D. the information is in digital form

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe how domestic security policies are designed to address threat environments existing at the time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Regulating the Media

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Repressing passionate political ideas usually results in ______.

A. backlash and violent resistance

B. passive resistance and civil disobedience

C. the formation of political action committees

D. acceptance of the government’s agenda

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe how domestic security policies are designed to address threat environments existing at the time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Civil Liberty and Countering Extremism Through Reform

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. What U.S. government organization was behind the controversial Tempora, PRISM, and XKeyscore operations?

A. Federal Bureau of Investigation

B. Congress

C. Federal Trade Commission

D. National Security Agency

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe how domestic security policies are designed to address threat environments existing at the time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Case in Point: Data Mining by the National Security Agency

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. American homeland security experts tasked with creating policies are challenged first by defining terrorism and second by the challenge of ______.

A. getting the support of the government

B. labeling individual suspects

C. possessing the appropriate expertise

D. access to technology

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Problem of Labeling the Enemy

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. What is an enemy combatant?

A. a soldier fighting for a sovereign nation

B. a suspected terrorist

C. another name for a civilian casualty

D. anyone condoning violence against the United States

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Civil Liberties and Detainees

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. What is extraordinary rendition?

A. A method of extradition approved of by the U.N.

B. A trial before the International Court of Justice.

C. A method of covertly abducting and detaining suspected terrorists or affiliated operatives.

D. A hearing before a judge prior to detaining or questioning a suspected terrorist.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ker-Frisbie Rule and Extraordinary Renditions

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Due to their treatment of Iraqi detainees held at the U.S.-controlled Abu Ghraib prison, several U.S. soldiers were ______.

A. pardoned by the President of the United States

B. put on trial and convicted in the military courts

C. put on trial before the International Court of Justice

D. extradited to Iraq for prosecution

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Case in Point: The Torture Debate

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. There are debates about whether practices like waterboarding, sexual degradation, environmental stress, and sleep deprivation should be defined as torture or ______.

A. enhanced interrogation

B. access control

C. official persuasion

D. information promotion

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Case in Point: The Torture Debate

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. SWAT units have been integral units within law enforcement agencies since ______.

A. the 1970s

B. 2010

C. the 1990s

D. 2000

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Case in Point: The Militarization of the Police

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. The acquisition by American police of armored vehicles, submachine guns, and nonlethal grenades are part of a policy trend many have deemed ______.

A. enhanced interrogation

B. federal control

C. the militarization of police

D. domestic litigation

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Case in Point: The Militarization of the Police

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. During the Second Red Scare, Congress passed the Smith Act of 1940, which made advocating the violent overthrow of the government protected by the First Amendment.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe how domestic security policies are designed to address threat environments existing at the time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Second Red Scare

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The practical counterterrorist model stresses the importance of protecting human rights.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Evaluate the importance of balancing civil liberties protections and domestic security necessities.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Balancing Theory and Practicality

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. When it comes to national security, most political observers agree that the media does an effective job at self-regulation.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Apply arguments from each side of the debate on how to balance civil liberty and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Regulating the Media

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Those who champion civil rights and liberties are satisfied with current protocols that regulate the government’s ability to monitoring electronic communications.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Apply arguments from each side of the debate on how to balance civil liberty and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberty

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Edward Snowden was officially pardoned after leaking details of U.S. intelligence operations.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Case in Point: Data Mining by the National Security Agency

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Over the past 50 years, the cultural shift in the United States toward inclusion and diversity should have theoretically eroded the root causes for extremist sentiment.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Case in Point: Cultural Shifts, Inclusion, and Civil Liberty in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The composite of the new terrorist profile included the following characteristics: male gender, Middle Eastern heritage, young-adult age, Muslim faith, and temporary visa status.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Terrorist Profiling

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were protected by the Geneva Convention.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Civil Liberties and Detainees

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The doctrine that prohibits extraordinary renditions is known as the Ker-Frisbie Rule.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ker-Frisbie Rule and Extraordinary Renditions

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The current trend in the United States is toward the militarization of state and local police forces.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Case in Point: The Militarization of the Police

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Is there danger in governmental uses of surveillance technologies? What impact, if any, do you expect this to have on society? Explain your answer.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Evaluate the importance of balancing civil liberties protections and domestic security necessities.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberty

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Critically assess whether the policy options used during the Red Scares were justifiable.

Learning Objective: 4-1: Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Communism and the Red Scares

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Are extraordinary renditions an acceptable counterterrorist option? Explain your answer.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Ker-Frisbie Rule and Extraordinary Renditions

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Critically discuss whether the identification and treatment of suspects should differ based on how they are classified (labeled) under the law.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Problem of Labeling the Enemy

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Describe the actions the U.S. government took to correct the War Relocation Authority and the internment of Japanese Americans.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe how domestic security policies are designed to address threat environments existing at the time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Wartime Internment Camps

Difficulty Level: Medium