Exam Questions Risks, Perils, and Traumatic Death Chapter 13

The Last Dance: Encountering Death & Dying, 11e (DeSpelder)

Chapter 13 Risks, Perils, and Traumatic Death

1) What is the term used for encounters with death where massive loss of life typically occurs?

A) Global death

B) Horrific death

C) Multi-depth death

D) Megadeath

2) Accidents are usually defined as

A) events resulting from various intrinsic factors.

B) events that occur from a known yet ignored cause or source of danger.

C) events that occur by chance or from unknown causes.

D) events over which people have no control.

3) When a person is killed due to the negligence and misconduct of another person, company or entity, it is a/an

A) accidental homicide.

B) wrongful death.

C) random act of violence.

D) arbitrary death.

4) In Japan, karoshi is

A) recreational activity risk.

B) sudden death from overwork.

C) accident prone.

D) a term used by people with AIDS.

5) When behavior involves doing dangerous things just for the thrill of it, it may represent

A) an attempt to deny fear or anxiety about death.

B) efforts to overcome childhood guilt.

C) distorted thinking.

D) a reaction to overly strict parenting.

6) The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011 triggered a massive tsunami causing significant damage to Japan's

A) fashion industry.

B) nuclear reactors.

C) funeral industry.

D) powerlines.

7) The scale of the Great Sichuan Earthquake prompted the Chinese government to

A) dispose of the bodies with little ceremony.

B) create forensic identification policies.

C) better utilize the Internet to locate loved ones.

D) institute local debriefings.

8) After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a Senate investigation reported a failure of government at all levels to plan, prepare for and

A) involve media in a timely fashion.

B) respond aggressively to the storm.

C) locate the dead.

D) provide for companion animals.

9) In the wake of a disaster, the survivors may experience a/an ________ marked by a profound sense of emptiness and despair.

A) existential crisis

B) restoration drive

C) community candlelight vigil

D) bureaucratic delay

10) Among the first steps to be taken in responding to a disaster are a set of core actions collectively defined as

A) ministering.

B) hurricane relief.

C) mobilization.

D) psychological first aid.

11) Which of the following percentages reflects the increase in murders in the United States from 2015 to 2016?

A) 5.6 percent

B) 8.6 percent

C) 18.6 percent

D) 28.6 percent

12) Although we cannot eliminate the encounter with death that accompanies disaster, steps can be taken to reduce its impact, preserve life and demonstrate

A) restoration.

B) restraint of loss.

C) compassion for survivors.

D) mobilization of resources.

13) The most threatening of violent acts are those that occur without apparent cause and when the victim is

A) related to the perpetrator.

B) a child.

C) selected seemingly at random.

D) harmed by a well-known felon.

14) Serial killers

A) are usually provoked by their victims.

B) take the lives of several victims over a span of time.

C) kill many victims at once and in one place, such as a school or mall.

D) were first seen at the University of Texas in 1966.

15) Regarding familicide, some experts find that

A) women are more likely to kill both their children and their spouse.

B) men are more likely to kill both their children and their spouse.

C) fathers are more likely than mothers to be diagnosed as mentally ill at the time of their offenses.

D) familicide is a frequent occurrence, especially amongst Native Americans.

16) What is the killing of one's child or children referred to?

A) Patricide

B) Matricide

C) Filicide

D) Sororicide

17) The term psychic maneuver is used to describe

A) a stress reaction also known as "shell shock."

B) a sudden death as a result of occupational stress and fatigue.

C) factors that facilitate homicidal acts.

D) a method of coping with the consequences of modern technological warfare.

18) Which of the following are examples of a "psychic maneuver" that promotes violence?

1. Perceiving people as objects or as less than human

2. Seeing oneself as debased or worthless

3. Encouraging a person to feel above the law

4. Encouraging a person to align with his or her victim

A) 1, 2, and 3

B) 1, 2, and 4

C) 1, 3, and 4

D) 2, 3, and 4

19) Which of the following "factors favoring violence" applies to the situation in which a person attempts to escape responsibility by blaming someone else?

A) "If I am treated like a rat, I might as well act like one. What have I got to lose?"

B) "I was just carrying out orders."

C) Alcohol, mind-altering drugs, hypnotism, mass frenzy, and the like.

D) The notion that rank, prestige, wealth, or the like makes it possible for one to "get away with murder".

20) Studies show violence is reduced when

A) early curfews are obeyed.

B) social interaction is kept at a minimum.

C) handgun laws are enforced.

D) residents work together to create a safe and orderly environment.

21) Which of the following abrogates, or nullifies, conventional sanctions against killing by substituting a different set of conventions and rules about moral conduct?

A) Doing illegal drugs

B) Life on the streets

C) War

D) Police work

22) Dalton Trumbo's story, Johnny Got His Gun, was

A) rap musician Ice-T's inspiration.

B) about small town violence in the 1960s.

C) about the phantom army.

D) a classic antiwar novel.

23) What is the most characteristic feature of the modern war machine?

A) Lack of patriotism

B) In-depth media coverage

C) Using ideals of peace as an excuse for war

D) Technological alienation

24) A characteristic self-protective human response to mass death and carnage is

A) to become super sensitive and emotional.

B) psychic dumbing.

C) patriotism.

D) psychic numbing.

25) According to studies by the International Red Cross, what percentage of casualties in modern warfare are civilians rather than military combatants?

A) 20 percent

B) 40 percent

C) 70 percent

D) 90 percent

26) The characteristic self-protective psychological response of becoming insensitive and unfeeling is termed

A) psychic distancing.

B) posttraumatic stress disorder.

C) psychic numbing.

D) emotional alienation.

27) According to Arnold Toynbee, one of the conventions of warfare that turns civilians into soldiers is

A) instructing them about sophisticated weapons.

B) instilling severe military discipline.

C) dressing the part.

D) reinforcing their childhood moral codes.

28) In combat situations, most soldiers are motivated to fight because of their

A) will to survive.

B) sense of camaraderie.

C) sense of patriotism.

D) desire to be heroic.

29) Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is best described as

A) the results of warfare and homecomings on combatants and families.

B) an untreatable disorder caused by war and conflict.

C) the distressing symptoms experienced by some veterans of warfare.

D) a cluster of symptoms associated with normal grief.

30) What is considered the "signature injury" of recent wars?

A) Traumatic brain injuries

B) Returning home to impending divorce

C) Estrangement from children

D) Moral decline

31) Family and friends who "serve invisibly at home" while loved ones are at war are referred to as a

A) memorial team.

B) home support team.

C) support corps.

D) phantom army.

32) War creates a "phantom army" composed of

A) civilians who are caught in the middle of combat.

B) patriots and older veterans who cheer on the troops.

C) politicians and media pundits who generate hatred for the enemy and desire for victory.

D) spouses, children, and parents who serve invisibly at home.

33) In his classic work, On War, Karl von Clausewitz defined war as

A) hell.

B) the continuation of political policy by other means.

C) a condition of hostilities between opposing governments and societies.

D) a struggle between two nations where lives are lost.

34) The media's ambiguity and uncertainty about the actual death toll during a war is

A) an effort to generate public support for war.

B) a result of the public not wanting to know the facts.

C) an effort to promote an anti-war movement.

D) a result of the media's lack of professionalism.

35) Genocide involves efforts to

A) determine the biological roots of violence.

B) destroy an entire national or political group.

C) eradicate social practices that favor violence.

D) modify genetic factors that cause violence.

36) The systematic effort to destroy an entire national or cultural group is called

A) ultra-terrorism.

B) homicide.

C) genocide.

D) mass destruction.

37) Autogenocide is

A) a group's killing of its own people.

B) multiple loss resulting from a car accident.

C) the enemy as torturer or sadist.

D) death without forethought.

38) The aim of terrorism is to

A) enhance military and government operations.

B) destroy the sense of security people normally feel in familiar places.

C) fund underground militant groups.

D) destroy working relations among nations.

39) In achieving their goals, terrorists often rely on the ________ whereby their actions are broadcast through the media to a much larger audience than merely the one in the location where the event occurs, thus giving their acts greater significance.

A) indiscrimination effect

B) discrimination effect

C) amplification effect

D) reduction effect

40) Which of the following media played an especially vital role in the exchange of information, including a survivor registry, following the World Trade Center attack on September 11?

A) Radio

B) Internet

C) Television

D) Newspaper

41) Aaron Beck describes terrorists as

A) prisoners of greed.

B) prisoners of hate.

C) deranged and confused.

D) a global plague.

42) What is a rapidly spreading disease or condition?

A) Horrendous death

B) Pandemic

C) Epidemic

D) Emergent flu

43) What is the most AIDS affected region in the world?

A) Sub-Saharan Africa

B) Australia

C) Western Europe

D) South America

44) In recent years the greatest impact of AIDS in the United States has been among

A) Native Americans and Hispanics.

B) Hawaiians and African Americans.

C) Hispanics and African Americans.

D) the homeless.

45) AIDS reminds us that infectious diseases remain a threat and that human beings remain uncertain about how to respond to

A) blood transfusions.

B) IV drug use.

C) epidemic disease.

D) hemophilia.

46) Individuals and societies can minimize the risk of accidents.

47) Japan had no hazard maps indicating areas that would be flooded in a tsunami.

48) The most threatening of violent acts are those that occur without apparent cause.

49) In the United States, frequency of gun threats or violence in schools has risen to the point that only the worst are considered newsworthy.

50) Victims sometimes play a role in encouraging violent acts against themselves.

51) Children are rarely forcibly recruited to be combatants around the world.

52) War is personality and mood-altering for combatants.

53) Meditation and sweat-lodge rituals have helped some veterans come to terms with their experiences.

54) Collateral damage is likely to affect the "phantom army."

55) Terrorism has been called the "weapon of the deranged."

56) Hundreds of people were recovered alive from the collapsed Twin Towers.

57) Much of the terrorism in recent decades has a religious component as terrorists envision themselves as defenders of an ancient faith.

58) "Horrendous death" is a term used to describe a form of premature death that lacks redeeming social value.

59) In 1918, as many as 40 million people died from the influenza virus.

60) The virtual world of online gaming has helped epidemiologists gather data to better understand the interactions of people and plagues.

61) Since the advent of penicillin, people have become more anxious about infectious diseases and the availability of such medications.