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Multiple Choice questions



 This activity contains 25 questions.

Question 1.
Two small nations in South America are fighting over a border dispute. The violence has not spread to any other part of the world and no other nation appears interested in the conflict. Based on this, the conflict would best be described as ______________.


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Question 2.
How did World War II differ from World War I?


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Question 3.
Of the following, the war that took the highest number of American lives was _____________,


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Question 4.
The cable news network that had a windfall in viewers because of its coverage of the search for weapons of mass destruction during the Iraq War using the slogan "all news all the time" was ____________.

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Question 5.
The term "smart weapons" is best defined by which of the following phrases?

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Question 6.
Sociologist Tamotsu Shibutani is best noted for making which conclusion about war?

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Question 7.
The use of calculated, unlawful physical force or threats of violence against a government, organization, or individual to gain some political, religious, economic, or social objective is called ____________.

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Question 8.
Although all soldiers who experience the atrocities of war have been affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the war that brought this condition into the public eye most often was _____________.

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Question 9.

A soldier with an average personality who has participated in armed combat must prepare psychologically to kill the enemy. To do so he may think of his adversary as being inhuman and savage and refer to the enemy in racial or ethnic slurs. Robert Merton would classify this behavior as a ____________ of war.

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Question 10.
In the United States, approximately _____ percent of every tax dollar goes to defense, even in peace time.

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Question 11.
Based on the research of Freidman and Freidman, what single factor is most critical in determining the winner and loser in war.

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Question 12.
The sociological perspective that believes wars are waged and military spending done to benefit corporate capitalists is the ____________ perspective.

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Question 13.
Components of social institutions and cultural beliefs, and practices that promote the development of warriors, weapons, and war as a normal part of society and its foreign policy are called ____________.

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Question 14.
The bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh that had as its objective the intimidation and threat of harm to the American government is best classified as an act of ____________.

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Question 15.
The acts of September 11, 2001 that involved the al Qaeda network destroying the World Trade Towers and bombing the Pentagon are best classified by which of the following terms?

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Question 16.
In Cambodia the Pol Pot regime killed over a million of its own people for political purposes between 1975 and 1979. This form of political terrorism is called ____________.

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Question 17.
In Libya Muammar Qaddafi provided money and training for terrorist groups to carry out acts against other foreign governments but did not directly involve his nation's armed forces in these attacks. Such an arrangement is called ____________.

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Question 18.
The terrorist group responsible for killing the Israeli athletes at the Olympics in the 1970s was ____________.

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Question 19.
Scholars identify four types of terrorism most likely to affect American citizens. Theodore Kaczynski and Timothy McVeigh are associated with which one of these four?

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Question 20.
The national agency that developed a color-coded system displaying five levels of alert to the threat of terrorism in the United States was ____________.

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Question 21.
Explanations of violence that address brain lesions, brain dysfunction, and hormone imbalance are most associated with which of the following perspectives?

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Question 22.
Robert Lifton believed that the Nazi doctors were able to commit horrible atrocities because of the psychological process of becoming a "part-self" which is called ___________.


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Question 23.
The theorist who explained violence as a result of a conflict between the three aspects of the human personality, the id, ego, and super ego, was _____________.

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Question 24.
Which of the following is not one of the explanations for war and terrorism based on the functionalist perspective?

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Question 25.
An explanation of war and terrorism that addresses patriarchy and the relationship between militarism and masculinity is called _____________ by symbolic interactionists.


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