, 1. The social context surrounding the term terrorism influences how it is defined.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Difficulties with Definitions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.01 - Explain the reason terrorism is difficult to define.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
2. The term terrorism is not loaded with politically explosive meanings.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Difficulties with Definitions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.01 - Explain the reason terrorism is difficult to define.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
3. Terrorism is difficult to define because it is not a physical entity that has dimensions to be measured, weighed, and analyzed.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Difficulties with Definitions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.01 - Explain the reason terrorism is difficult to define.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
4. Terrorists are treated differently from criminals and other enemies of the state.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Difficulties with Definitions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.01 - Explain the reason terrorism is difficult to define.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
5. The definition of terrorism fluctuates according to the interests of the group defining the term.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Difficulties with Definitions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.01 - Explain the reason terrorism is difficult to define.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
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, 6. The meaning of terrorism has changed with political tides in Western history.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Shifts of Meanings in History
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.04 - Outline contemporary attempts to define terrorism.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
7. Terrorism came into existence during the American Revolution.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Shifts of Meanings in History
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.05 - Explain where the term terrorism originated and how the
meaning changed during the history of the nineteenth century.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
8. Guerilla warfare originated in Spain.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Shifts of Meanings in History
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.05 - Explain where the term terrorism originated and how the
meaning changed during the history of the nineteenth century.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
9. Guerilla tactics were used throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Shifts of Meanings in History
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.05 - Explain where the term terrorism originated and how the
meaning changed during the history of the nineteenth century.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
10. European governments and capitalists came to fear class revolution as a series of uprisings swept across Europe in 1848.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Shifts of Meanings in History
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.05 - Explain where the term terrorism originated and how the
meaning changed during the history of the nineteenth century.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
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, 11. Edmund Burke used the term terrorism to describe the situation of revolutionary Paris in 1787.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Shifts of Meanings in History
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.05 - Explain where the term terrorism originated and how the
meaning changed during the history of the nineteenth century.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
12. European capitalists of the 1800s opposed all forms of socialism and anarchy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Shifts of Meanings in History
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.06 - Explain how socialism, anarchism, and communism were
mistakenly associated with terrorism.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
13. Modern terrorism surfaced with violent anarchists in the late 1800s.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Shifts of Meanings in History
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.06 - Explain how socialism, anarchism, and communism were
mistakenly associated with terrorism.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
14. One fact that influenced the adoption of violent action by anarchists was the invention of dynamite.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Shifts of Meanings in History
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.06 - Explain how socialism, anarchism, and communism were
mistakenly associated with terrorism.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
15. Russia was the site of The Easter Rising of 1916.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Selective Terrorism and the Birth of the Irish Republic
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: TERR.WHIT.17.01.08 - Summarize the early history of the Irish Republican Army.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
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