Chapter 11: Homeland Security

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Regarding domestic law, an important challenge for lawmakers is ______.

a. the problem of balancing the need for counterterrorist legislation against the protection of basic rights

b. how to most effectively crack down on potential terrorist supporters

c. giving as much power as possible to federal and state law enforcement agencies

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Balancing Civil Liberties and Homeland Security

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The United States passed its first comprehensive counterterrorism legislation during the administration of President ______.

a. Abraham Lincoln

b. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

c. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

d. William Jefferson Clinton

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act include which of the following?

a. The use of nationwide search warrants

b. Deportation of immigrants who raise money for terrorist organizations

c. The use of roving wiretaps by investigators

d. All of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The USA Patriot Act of 2001

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. During the first Red Scare in 1919, the perceived threat emanated from which of the following?

a. Anarchist and communist terrorism and subversion

b. Fascist and Nazi terrorism and subversion

c. Both “anarchist and communist terrorism and subversion” and “fascist and Nazi terrorism and subversion”

d. Neither “Anarchist and communist terrorism and subversion” nor “fascist and Nazi terrorism and subversion”

Learning Objective: 11-3: Explain civil liberties challenges that occur when implementing homeland security policies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Historical Perspective: Red Scares and Internment in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The internment camp countermeasure was adopted for which of the following purposes?

a. Deportations of suspected communists

b. High-profile investigations and prosecutions

c. Detention of Confederate sympathizers in Union states

d. Relocation of thousands of ethnic Japanese

Learning Objective: 11-3: Explain civil liberties challenges that occur when implementing homeland security policies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Historical Perspective: Red Scares and Internment in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Why has electronic surveillance become a controversial practice in the United States?

a. There exists widespread consensus that increased surveillance is absolutely necessary to thwart terrorist conspiracies.

b. Critics argue that government use can move well beyond legitimate counterterrorist applications.

c. Electronic surveillance technologies are inaccurate.

d. Proponents believe not enough has been done to observe extremists.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Terrorist Profiling

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Edward Snowden ______.

a. was a former contractor for the National Security Agency who leaked details of covert surveillance operations to the media

b. was responsible for countering the first Red Scare

c. wrote about significant weaknesses in the “war on terrorism” for the Washington Post

d. was arrested for leaking classified information

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The USA Freedom Act of 2015

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Terrorist profiling poses which of the following challenges to the protection of civil liberties?

a. Legal protections should be enforced for suspects.

b. Illicit kidnappings and detentions violate local and international laws.

c. High potential for racial profiling.

d. Torture, however defined, is fundamentally immoral.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Terrorist Profiling

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Labeling the enemy poses which of the following challenges to the protection of civil liberties?

a. Legal protections should be enforced for suspects.

b. Illicit kidnappings and detentions violate local and international laws.

c. High potential for racial profiling.

d. Torture, however defined, is fundamentally immoral.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Problem of Labeling the Enemy

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Extraordinary renditions pose which of the following challenges to the protection of civil liberties?

a. Legal protections should be enforced for suspects.

b. Illicit kidnappings and detentions violate local and international laws.

c. High potential for racial profiling

d. Torture, however defined, is fundamentally immoral.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Extraordinary Renditions

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Which of the following agencies were incorporated in the new Department of Homeland Security after the September 11, 2001, organizational crisis?

a. The Central Intelligence Agency

b. The Federal Emergency Management Agency

c. The Federal Bureau of Investigation

d. All of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Which of the following statements about the Department of Homeland Security is most accurate?

a. Few directorates and other offices were created in order to enhance efficiency of operations.

b. The department is one of the most independent agencies in the federal bureaucracy.

c. The department is one of the largest agencies in the federal bureaucracy.

d. Both “few directorates and other offices were created in order to enhance efficiency of operations” and “the department is one of the most independent agencies in the federal bureaucracy”.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Summary

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Sector-specific agencies ______.

a. have been placed under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security

b. are regional homeland security agencies

c. protect critical infrastructure in the United States from terrorist attacks

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sector-Specific Agencies

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The primary mission of the Department of Agriculture is to ______.

a. grow food

b. ensure a safe, sufficient and nutritious food supply

c. feed the nation in the event of a terrorist incident

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The primary mission of the Department of Defense is to ______.

a. attack the nation’s enemies

b. eliminate international terrorist organizations

c. provide the military forces needed to deter war and protect the nation’s security

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Department of Defense (DOD)

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. The primary mission of the Department of Energy is to ______.

a. assure national distribution of electricity, coal, oil, and other energy sources

b. advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States

c. create energy independence for the United States

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Department of Energy (DOE)

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. The primary mission of the Department of Health and Human Services is to ______.

a. protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human service

b. secure the supply of the nation’s medicine

c. oversee the distribution of services to humans

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. The primary mission of the Department of the Treasury is to ______.

a. promote the conditions that enable economic growth and stability, protect the integrity of the financial system, and manage the U.S. government’s finances and resources effectively

b. print the nation’s money supply

c. oversee the Secret Service

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Department of Treasury

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Max Weber invented the term bureaucracy to describe and explain which of the following?

a. Rationality and efficiency in managing governments

b. Inefficiency in managing governments

c. How to efficiently manage domestic security

d. The democratic process

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Bureaucratic Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Prior to the domestic attacks of September 11, 2001, federal services agencies ______.

a. had a variety of missions

b. carefully coordinated their operations to secure the homeland

c. worked closely with the military and intelligence agencies to secure the homeland

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Service Agencies

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Which of the following problems became quite clear during the year following the domestic attacks of September 11, 2001?

a. State and federal agencies were well prepared to address challenges to domestic security.

b. Domestic attacks are predictable when state and federal agencies “connect the dots.”

c. The old organizational model did not adapt well to the new security environment.

d. No one can ever truly “connect the dots” to predict domestic attacks.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Interagency Challenges

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. After the domestic attacks of September 11, 2001, which of the following problems were identified in the federal bureaucracy?

a. Entrenched and cumbersome bureaucratic cultures and procedures

b. Long-standing interagency rivalries

c. Fragmentation of counter-terrorist operations

d. All of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Interagency Challenges

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The war on terrorism has been referred to as a shadow war.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Extraordinary Renditions

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The creation of the Department of Homeland Security established one of the smallest federal agencies.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Summary

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Extraordinary renditions are a well-regarded legalistic counter-terrorist option.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Extraordinary Renditions

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The Ker-Frisbie Rule prohibits the abduction of suspects and rendering them to courts in the United States.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Extraordinary Renditions

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Waterboarding is not an example of torture.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Torture Debate

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The threat from homegrown jihadists is limited to Europe.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the conceptual and national contexts of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Threat From Homegrown Jihadists

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. West European countries have not established centralized ministries or agencies similar to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the conceptual and national contexts of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The European Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Cooperation has always been evident between agencies responsible for domestic and foreign intelligence the United States.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: U.S. Intelligence Community: Mission

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security absorbed the functions of at least 17 agencies.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Interagency Challenges

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The Rewards for Justice program offers money for information on terrorist suspects.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the conceptual and national contexts of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Law Enforcement Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. What are the implications of the London and Madrid transportation system bombings and the Fort Hood incident?

Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the conceptual and national contexts of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Threat From Homegrown Jihadists

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Briefly describe how the concept of “homeland security” had been implemented in the United States.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the conceptual and national contexts of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The American Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. In your opinion, which government responses will prove to be most effective for countering terrorism? Explain your answer.

Learning Objective: 11-3: Explain civil liberties challenges that occur when implementing homeland security policies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Government Responses

Difficulty Level: Medium

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

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Extraordinary Renditions

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Is torture an acceptable counterterrorist option? Explain your answer.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Torture Debate

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Why has the United States experienced interagency rivalries and tensions? Explain your answer.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Interagency Challenges

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. In your opinion, is the reorganization of homeland security a viable counterterrorist option?

Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the conceptual and national contexts of homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Various

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. How effective do you think the private “watchdog” agencies are in monitoring governments?

Learning Objective: 11-3: Explain civil liberties challenges that occur when implementing homeland security policies.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Countering Extremism Through Reform

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. In your opinion, which societal responses will prove to be most effective for countering terrorism? Explain your answer.

Learning Objective: 11-3: Explain civil liberties challenges that occur when implementing homeland security policies.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Achieving Security

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. In your opinion, has the United States historically responded proportionately to security threats?

Learning Objective: 11-3: Explain civil liberties challenges that occur when implementing homeland security policies.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Achieving Security

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Is the USA Patriot Act a necessary law? Explain your answer.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The USA Patriot Act of 2001

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. How are the missions of sector-specific agencies similar? How effective do you think these agencies are in combating terrorism in the United States?

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sector-Specific Agencies

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Describe and critique the many missions of the Department of Homeland Security.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe the American approach to homeland security.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. How can agencies in the United States balance civil liberties while securing the homeland?

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss balancing the need for security and civil liberties protections.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Balancing Civil Liberties and Homeland Security

Difficulty Level: Medium