Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:

The nature of war compared to interpersonal violence is that ________.
a) it is impulsive
b) it is unorganized
c) it is impersonal in killing
d) it is episodic

Question 2:

The main difference between war and terrorism is that terrorism is targeted at ________.
a) combatting soldiers
b) non-combatants
c) women
d) children

Question 3:

Activities carried out by the Front de libération du Québec can be considered terrorist because they involved all of the following except ________.
a) kidnapping and killing a minister
b) bombing national symbols
c) injuring police officers
d) disseminating propaganda videos

Question 4:

Distribution of assets and wealth from core nations to peripheral nations does not guarantee an improvement in poor people’s lives because ________.
a) peripheral nations’ citizens don’t use the funds efficiently
b) politicians and elites tend to appropriate the funds
c) core nations have different ideas for development than peripheral nations
d) core nations don’t provide the funds agreed upon

Question 5:

The Ottawa Convention of 1997 deals with ________.
a) action against raping women during wars
b) action against recruiting children soldiers
c) prohibition of the use of land mines
d) prohibition of the use of chemical weapons

Question 6:

In 2012, ________ boasted the highest spending on military troops and technologies.
a) the Middle East
b) Europe
c) North America
d) Asia

Question 7:

According to the Global Peace Index, ________ rank low on the scale.
a) Europe and Africa
b) Australia and Asia
c) Africa and Asia
d) South America and Africa

Question 8:

There is a strong inverse correlation between high ranks in the Global Peace Index and the country’s ________.
a) welfare spending
b) military spending
c) educational spending
d) recreational spending

Question 9:

The “military-industrial complex” is a term introduced by former US president Dwight D. Eisenhower to refer to ________.
a) military units established within industrial zones
b) close relationship between the military and the private defense industry
c) a special restricted zone established by the Pentagon
d) industrial outlets inside military bases

Question 10:

Environmental disasters triggered by war include all of the following except ________.
a) burning of crops by armies in Russia
b) oil spills in the Baltic Sea
c) killing whales by Allied navies
d) setting fire to oil wells in Iraq

Question 11:

There are many similarities between interpersonal violence and war.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

The roots of terrorism can be found in the ethnic, religious, nationalist, and economic differences between human groups.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

The US government is perceived by several nations as a sponsor of terrorism.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

The Front de libération du Québec was not a terrorist group.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

According to the textbook, peacekeeping assumes that fighters on all sides are insincere in their wish for peace.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

China, Ukraine, and the United States are among the world’s top arms exporters.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Military conflicts during the twentieth century have led to the deaths of over 100 million people.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Canada benefitted from an economic boom after World War II.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Canada used the War Measures Act, legislated in 1914, for the benefit of Japanese Canadians during World War II.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Symbolic interactionism studies the language and labels of war.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Social Problems, Fourth Edition: Chapter 10