Chapter 14: The Future of Homeland Security

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. According to Professor Rapoport, which wave of terrorism are we currently living in?

A. anarchist

B. anticolonial

C. New Left

D. religious

Learning Objective: 14-1: Analyze near-term projections for the future of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Opening Viewpoint: Terrorist “Waves” and Near-Term Risks to Homeland Security

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. New trends by terrorists include increased use of communications, adaptation of cell-based strategies, the use of low-tech tactics, and ______.

A. the abandonment of cybercrime

B. a reduction in recruitment of new members

C. attempts to use weapons of mass destruction

D. a transformation to less violent approaches

Learning Objective: 14-1: Analyze near-term projections for the future of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Opening Viewpoint: Terrorist “Waves” and Near-Term Risks to Homeland Security

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Along with ensuring capable federal leadership, mitigating the effects of attacks, and adopting flexible laws, what long-term goals must domestic security initiatives incorporate?

A. preventing extremists from putting missions into action

B. creating new governmental agencies

C. attempting to enter into diplomatic relations with extremists

D. reducing surveillance on suspected domestic threats

Learning Objective: 14-1: Analyze near-term projections for the future of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Near-Term Projections

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. For forward-thinking homeland security systems to be successful, they need to be theoretically sound and ______.

A. practical

B. expensive

C. technical

D. diplomatic

Learning Objective: 14-2: Evaluate the feasibility of adapting theoretical and practical counterterrorist options to dynamic security environments.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Adaptive Measures: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Besides building collaborative consensus and opposing the New Terrorism, what fundamental challenges exist to control terrorist threats?

A. apathy from U.S. federal agencies

B. lack of international support

C. domestic and international extremism

D. a dearth of subject matter expertise

Learning Objective: 14-2: Evaluate the feasibility of adapting theoretical and practical counterterrorist options to dynamic security environments.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Controlling Terrorism: Understanding Fundamental Challenges

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Although a common motivation for political violence in the era of the New Terrorism is religious extremism, experts have noticed extremists who are mainly motivated by ______.

A. financial gain and materialism

B. issues pertaining to race and nationalism

C. gaining territory far from their homeland

D. assimilating themselves into new cultures

Learning Objective: 14-2: Evaluate the feasibility of adapting theoretical and practical counterterrorist options to dynamic security environments.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Challenge of Countering Extremism

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The American air raids against Libya during Operation El Dorado Canyon are an example of ______.

A. the unsuccessful use of military force to combat terrorism

B. marginal success through the use of diplomatic relations

C. the successful use of force as a viable counterterrorist option

D. an unequivocal failure due to the refusal to employ force

Learning Objective: 14-2: Evaluate the feasibility of adapting theoretical and practical counterterrorist options to dynamic security environments.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Chapter Perspective 14.1 The Continued Utility of Force

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Pervasive homeland security measures, shadow wars, counterterrorist financial programs, global communications surveillance, and disruption of terrorist cells are all ______.

A. fronts in the war on New Terrorism

B. antiterrorism methods that have been proven to be ineffective

C. methods that the U.S. has not yet attempted to utilize

D. programs prohibited by the United Nations

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Challenge of Countering the New Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. What are the main collaboration goals of international intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies?

A. to create an international organization larger than Interpol and create one World Court

B. to share information, establish best practices, and write comprehensive publications

C. to destabilize terrorist networks and conspiracies, collect intelligence, and imprison operatives

D. all of these

Learning Objective: 14-4: Evaluate the need for ongoing international collaboration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Case in Point: International Collaboration on Law Enforcement and Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Which of the following is a “front” in the modern war on terrorism?

A. counterterrorist financial operations

B. covert shadow wars

C. global surveillance of communications technologies

D. all of these

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Challenge of Countering the New Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. The 1990s and 2000s saw a trend of targeting the United States and the West in attacks that were high profile, lethal, and ______.

A. primitive

B. symbolic

C. focused on hard targets

D. small in scale

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehensive

Answer Location: Defending the Homeland: Ongoing Patterns of Political Violence

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. What is a noticeable key feature of the modern-day radical left?

A. mainstream support from citizens

B. less focus on environmentalism

C. single-issue extremism

D. a widespread rejection of anarchism

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Future of the Violent Left in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. What is a key feature of the modern-day violent right in the United States?

A. an embrace of conspiracy theories

B. lone wolf extremists

C. a move away from leaderless resistance

D. less focus on conspiracy theories

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Future of the Violent Right in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Where do international sources of terrorism originate?

A. cell-based networks that replicate the al-Qaeda model

B. organized crime models like the Italian mafia

C. law enforcement organizations that splinter into rebel groups

D. large political parties that have grown dissatisfied

Learning Objective: 14-4: Evaluate the need for ongoing international collaboration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Threat From International Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Who were the leading practitioners of international terrorism during the beginning of the modern era of international terrorism in the late 1940s?

A. ISIS

B. Palestinian nationalists

C. Hamas

D. Al-Qaeda

Learning Objective: 14-4: Evaluate the need for ongoing international collaboration.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Perspective 14.2 The Changing Environment of International Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Hard

16. Which geographical area was an international source of terrorism against the United States during the beginning of the 21st century and is predicted to continue to be a source?

A. Europe

B. Africa

C. the Middle East

D. South America

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Perspective 14.2 The Changing Environment of International Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. The 2011 Arab Spring uprisings are an example of a ______.

A. counterpoint to international terrorism

B. violent overthrow of a peaceful government

C. fanatical religious group

D. highly destruct cybercrime attack

Learning Objective: 14-4: Evaluate the need for ongoing international collaboration.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Counterpoints to International Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. When did the New Left Wave of terrorism exist?

A. 1880s to the end of World War I

B. 1960s to the 1980s

C. end of World War I until the late 1960s

D. 1980 to the present

Learning Objective: 14-1: Analyze near-term projections for the future of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Opening Viewpoint: Terrorist “Waves” and Near-Term Risks to Homeland Security

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. What is one quality current counterterrorist models need to respond to new terrorist environments?

A. consistency with past methods of fighting terrorism

B. the federal government consistently exerting authority

C. a rejection of all shadow war missions

D. flexibility to respond to new methods of terrorism

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Challenge of Countering the New Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Criminal justice systems around the globe can collaborate with intelligence agencies and incapacitate terrorists by their ability to ______.

A. utilizes capital punishment in all nations

B. try all terrorists in the World Court

C. capture, prosecute, convict, and imprison terrorists

D. usurp the power of their nation’s armed forces

Learning Objective: 14-4: Evaluate the need for ongoing international collaboration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Case in Point: International Collaboration on Law Enforcement and Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. The religious wave of terrorism is likely to end by 2020, according to Professor Rapoport.

Learning Objective: 14-1: Analyze near-term projections for the future of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Opening Viewpoint: Terrorist “Waves” and Near-Term Risks to Homeland Security

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Anti-terrorist programs that incorporate inclusive societal and cultural considerations are equally successful in democratic and repressive societies.

Learning Objective: 14-2: Evaluate the feasibility of adapting theoretical and practical counterterrorist options to dynamic security environments.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Challenge of Countering Extremism

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. State and local authorities are better equipped to articulate how federal outlays should be prioritized and disbursed to local institutions.

Learning Objective: 14-2: Evaluate the feasibility of adapting theoretical and practical counterterrorist options to dynamic security environments.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Challenge of Building Collaborative Consensus

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Domestic sources of ideological terrorism in the United States have never included threat from the right.

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Threat From Ideological Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The modern political and social environment demonstrates even more support for the left than that which existed during the era that spawned the civil rights movement.

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Future of the Violent Left in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. By the end of the 20th century, the most prominent practitioners of international terrorism were religious extremists.

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Perspective 14.2 The Changing Environment of International Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. There is no single binding or common ideological foundation for political violence.

Learning Objective: 14-4: Evaluate the need for ongoing international collaboration.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Counterpoints to International Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. A Hezbollah sleeper agent cell was discovered in the United States in 2000.

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: International Terrorism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Ethnonationalist violence has essentially disappeared around the globe.

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Perspective 14.2 The Changing Environment of International Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Shadow wars are fought outside public scrutiny using unconventional methods.

Learning Objective: 14-3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Challenge of Countering the New Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Is the terrorist “wave” theory a logical approach to understanding future terrorist behavior?

Learning Objective: 14-1: Analyze near-term projections for the future of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Opening Viewpoint: Terrorist “Waves” and Near-Term Risks to Homeland Security

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. What degree of emphasis should be placed on anticipating unexpected terrorist threats? Explain your answer.

Learning Objective: 14-2: Evaluate the feasibility of adapting theoretical and practical counterterrorist options to dynamic security environments.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Adaptive Measures: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Identify fundamental challenges to countering the new terrorism, and describe how these challenges can be overcome.

Learning Objective: 14-2: Evaluate the feasibility of adapting theoretical and practical counterterrorist options to dynamic security environments.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Challenge of Countering the New Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Describe the importance of international collaboration on counterterrorism efforts.

Learning Objective: 14-4: Evaluate the need for ongoing international collaboration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Case in Point: International Collaboration on Law Enforcement and Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Identify ongoing patterns of political violence that must be anticipated in the near future.

Learning Objective: 14–3: Identify continuing risks to domestic security from violent extremists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Defending the Homeland: Ongoing Patterns of Political Violence

Difficulty Level: Medium