POLI 330N WEEK 7 QUIZ
(TCO 9) _____ is a small or moderate change that essentially leaves the system
intact.
Mass discontent
Correct!
Reform
Dramatic system change
A coup d’etat
Question 2
pts
(TCO 9) Riots triggered by police beating youths, protests against globalization,
and labor strikes against austerity are all examples of _____.
purely traditional violence
Correct!
issue-oriented violence
violence carried out by civilian institutions of government
coups
Question 3
pts
(TCO 9) How is high unemployment relevant to civil conflict?
Correct!
, Unemployed young men incline naturally to unrest.
The unemployed tend to be passive, keeping civil conflict at bay.
Unemployed mothers, desperate for their children, tend to take to the streets.
The unemployed tend to be uninformed about politics, and therefore rarely take
part in civil conflict.
Question 4
pts
(TCO 9) What are the aims of terrorists via their calculated acts of terrorism?
Correct!
To panic their enemies, to gain publicity and recruits, and to get the foe to
overreact and drive more people to side with the terrorists
To destroy as much of the economic strength of a nation as possible
To kill national leaders
To kill their enemies, to gain recruits, and to get the UN to overreact and cause
more people to side with the terrorists
Question 5
pts
(TCO 9) According to Hannah Arendt, the American struggle was indeed a
revolution, perhaps history’s only complete revolution, _____.
because it alone ended with a democratic institutions.
because it became an example for other nations.
(TCO 9) _____ is a small or moderate change that essentially leaves the system
intact.
Mass discontent
Correct!
Reform
Dramatic system change
A coup d’etat
Question 2
pts
(TCO 9) Riots triggered by police beating youths, protests against globalization,
and labor strikes against austerity are all examples of _____.
purely traditional violence
Correct!
issue-oriented violence
violence carried out by civilian institutions of government
coups
Question 3
pts
(TCO 9) How is high unemployment relevant to civil conflict?
Correct!
, Unemployed young men incline naturally to unrest.
The unemployed tend to be passive, keeping civil conflict at bay.
Unemployed mothers, desperate for their children, tend to take to the streets.
The unemployed tend to be uninformed about politics, and therefore rarely take
part in civil conflict.
Question 4
pts
(TCO 9) What are the aims of terrorists via their calculated acts of terrorism?
Correct!
To panic their enemies, to gain publicity and recruits, and to get the foe to
overreact and drive more people to side with the terrorists
To destroy as much of the economic strength of a nation as possible
To kill national leaders
To kill their enemies, to gain recruits, and to get the UN to overreact and cause
more people to side with the terrorists
Question 5
pts
(TCO 9) According to Hannah Arendt, the American struggle was indeed a
revolution, perhaps history’s only complete revolution, _____.
because it alone ended with a democratic institutions.
because it became an example for other nations.
