Chapter 9: Domestic Terrorism in the United States

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following movements advocated for political independence, economic self-sufficiency, and a cultural reawakening?

a. Off the Grid

b. New World Order

c. Revolutionary Youth

d. Black Power

Learning Objective: 9-2: Understand the attributes of left-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Rise of Black Power

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The New Left arose in the ______.

a. 1940s

b. 1950s

c. 1960s

d. 1970s

Learning Objective: 9-1: Describe the general attributes of the American ideological left and right wings.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Growth of the New Left

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Which of the following was best associated with the New Left?

a. counterculture

b. reactionary

c. direct action

d. leaderless resistance

Learning Objective: 9-1: Describe the general attributes of the American ideological left and right wings.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Growth of the New Left

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Mainstream American political and social institutions are referred to as ______.

a. nativism

b. the New World Order

c. national alliance

d. the establishment

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Left-Wing Terrorism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. In the United States, left-wing terrorist violence has usually originated from which of the following motivations?

a. Ideological beliefs

b. Ethno-nationalist tendencies

c. Racial intolerance

d. Both “ideological beliefs” and “ethno-nationalist tendencies”

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Left-Wing Extremism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Which of the following tendencies are often found on the far and fringe right-wing?

a. Antigovernment sentiment

b. Racial supremacist sentiment

c. Conspiracy theories

d. All of these

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Right-Wing Extremism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Which of the following advocated for bombings, armed resistance, and assassinations?

a. Ku Klux Klan

b. Weather Bureau

c. Republic of New Africa

d. Mud People

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Weatherman/Weather Underground Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

8, The Black Liberation movement took place during which of the following decades?

a. 1920s

b. 1940s

c. 1950s

d. 1960s

Learning Objective: 9-2: Understand the attributes of left-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Black Liberation Movement

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front are examples of which of the following?

a. Environmental movement

b. Economic movement

c. Education movement

d. Energy movement

Learning Objective: 9-2: Understand the attributes of left-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Single-Issue Violence on the Left

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The membership of the Weatherman group mostly consisted of ______.

a. young, African American, educated members from urban areas

b. seasoned, older former Communists and anarchists

c. young, white, educated members of the middle class

d. largely uneducated street toughs

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Weatherman/Weather Underground Organization

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The Weather Underground Organization was formed ______.

a. to counteract the violence of left-wing terrorist organizations

b. when members of the Weatherman group went “underground” to engage in revolutionary violence

c. as an umbrella political party for the radical left

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Weatherman/Weather Underground Organization

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. The Symbionese Liberation Army was ______.

a. an African American nationalist organization

b. a Puerto Rican nationalist organization

c. a Patriot movement militia

d. a left-wing terrorist group

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Symbionese Liberation Army

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. What occurred during the 1960s?

a. Severe drought conditions in the American south

b. Intensive student activism

c. A series of disturbances in African American urban communities

d. None of these

Learning Objective: 9-2: Understand the attributes of left-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Black Liberation Movement

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Assata Shakur and William Morales were leaders of which organizations?

a. Black Liberation Army and FALN

b. Weathermen and Weather Underground Organization

c. Symbionese Liberation Army and New World Liberation Front

d. May 19 Communist Organization and United Freedom Front

Learning Objective: 9-2: Understand the attributes of left-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Civil Strife: Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism on the Left

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Targets of the ALF and ELF include which of the following?

a. Banks and other symbols of “capitalist exploitation”

b. Wealthy members of the “ruling class”

c. Laboratories, facilities where animals are kept, vehicles, and construction

d. Both “banks and other symbols of ‘capitalist exploitation’” and “wealthy members of the ‘ruling class’”

Learning Objective: 9-2: Understand the attributes of left-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Single-Issue Violence on the Left

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. The Ku Klux Klan ______.

a. is an international racist organization

b. was created to promote racial solidarity among Europeans and white Americans

c. has no counterpart among international right-wing movements

d. both “is an international racist organization” and “was created to promote racial solidarity among Europeans and white Americans”

Learning Objective: 9-4: Understand the attributes of right-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Homegrown Racism: The Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Christian identity, creativity, and Asatru are examples of ______.

a. Christian civil rights movements

b. racist mystical movements

c. intellectual trends on the fringe right-wing

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 9-4: Understand the attributes of right-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Racial Mysticism

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. The Order and Aryan Republican Army are examples of ______.

a. Christian civil rights movements

b. racist terrorist groups

c. intellectual trends on the fringe right-wing

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Racial Mysticism: Neo-Nazi Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Leaderless resistance ______.

a. requires the formation of phantom cells to wage clandestine resistance against the government

b. is an anarchist organizational model

c. is the formation of protest movements directed against the U.S. government

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Patriot Threats

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. ______ is premised on a rejection of the white race’s reliance on Christianity.

a. Creativity

b. Asatru

c. Christian identity

d. National Alliance

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Creativity Movement

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The modern American left is characterized by movements that grew out of the political environment in the 1960s.

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Left-Wing Extremism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Civil disobedience was applied via a strategy known as collective nonviolence.

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Left-Wing Extremism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Neofascist movements in Europe are secular.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Racial Mysticism

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The Ku Klux Klan has passed through five eras of development.

Learning Objective: 9.5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Homegrown Racism: The Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Environmental terrorism involves destroying forests, crops, etc.

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Single-Issue Violence on the Left

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The Oklahoma City bombing represents the worst example of international terrorism in U.S. history.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Oklahoma City Bombing

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. The KKK was founded in the aftermath of World War I.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: First-Era Klan

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The Ku Klux Klan is a purely American phenomenon.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Homegrown Racism: The Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The Black Codes were a product of the third era of the Klan.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Homegrown Racism: The Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The Phineas Priesthood represents an evangelical Christian movement seeking to promote conservative political agendas.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Case in Point: Moralist Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. Discuss how religion and mysticism are used by the extreme right wing in the United States.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Racial Mysticism

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Briefly discuss the pattern and attributes of Ku Klux Klan terrorism.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Homegrown Racism: The Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. What have been the attributes of nationalist terrorism in the United States?

Learning Objective: 9-1: Describe the general attributes of the American ideological left and right wings.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Various

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Briefly discuss the pattern and attributes of neo-Nazi terrorism.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Racial Mysticism: Neo-Nazi Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Discuss the implications of the militia phenomenon in the United States.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Patriot Threats

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Discuss how lynching represented communal terrorism in the United States.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Third-Era Klan

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. In what ways did organizations such as the Weathermen represent examples of vanguard theory?

Learning Objective: 9-4: Understand the attributes of right-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Various

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. In your opinion, why has the extremist right in the United States never formed a viable terrorist underground despite pronouncements from some adherents that they are prepared to do so? Explain your answer, and give examples.

Learning Objective: 9-4: Understand the attributes of right-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. In your opinion, why were extremist elements of the New Left able to construct a fairly viable underground movement? Why did this underground not involve itself in the same scale of terrorist violence that emerged at the same time among leftists in Germany and Italy? Explain your answer.

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Left-Wong Extremism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Discuss the evolution of the neo-Nazi movement in the United States. Why has it persisted? Why do American variants of the movement adopt religious mysticism as part of its ideology, unlike European neo-Nazis? Describe the potential for terrorist violence from the neo-Nazi right.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Discuss right-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Racial Mysticism: Neo-Nazi Terrorism

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Discuss the evolution of the Patriot movement in the United States. Why did it decline after a peak during the 1990s? Why has the movement persisted?

Learning Objective: 9-4: Understand the attributes of right-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Patriot Threats

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Compare and contrast the Patriot movement with the religious and racial supremacist right. Describe the potential for terrorist violence from the Patriot movement.

Learning Objective: 9-4: Understand the attributes of right-wing activism and ideological extremism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Patriot Threats

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Discuss the effect of conspiracy theories on perpetuating far- and fringe-right wing movements. Why do conspiracy theories persist?

Learning Objective: Various

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Various

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Explain reasons for the period of nationalist terrorism in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s. In your opinion, what is the future potential for nationalist terrorism in the United States?

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Civil Strife: Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism on the Left

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. Describe possible threat scenarios from single-issue extremists in the United States. How persistent are movements such as the radical environmentalists?

Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss left-wing terrorism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Single-Issue Violence on the Left

Difficulty Level: Medium