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Question 1:

Winston Churchill wrote, “The story of ________ is War.”
a) history
b) the twentieth century
c) mankind
d) the human race
e) England

Question 2:

“Geopolitics” is the association between ________ and geographical location of a state.
a) political relationships
b) political economy
c) military–political relations
d) society
e) security

Question 3:

The underlying assumption of the “security dilemma” is that ________.
a) all states have the same level of insecurity
b) not all states can be secure
c) all states actively seek conflict with other states
d) a threat to one state is a threat to all
e) any action taken by a state constitutes a threat to another

Question 5:

The laws of war that stipulate the acceptable use of force are known as ________.
a) jus ad bellum
b) jus bello legalis
c) jus post bellum
d) jus inter gentes
e) jus international

Question 7:

Al-Qaeda means ________.
a) “jihad”
b) “change through violence”
c) “change through war”
d) “the truth”
e) “the base”

Question 8:

One of the first advocates of humanitarian interventionism was ________.
a) John Rawls
b) John Stuart Mill
c) Montesquieu
d) Plato
e) Tomas Hobbes

Question 9:

The Rwandan genocide was sparked by the assassination of ________.
a) Burundi’s president
b) Rwanda’s president
c) Congo’s president
d) the presidents of Burundi and Rwanda
e) the presidents of Congo and Rwanda

Question 10:

Of the 800,000 to 1,000,000 people killed in the Rwandan genocide, ________ per cent were Tutsis.
a) 90
b) 80
c) 50
d) 20
e) 10

Question 11:

The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty was established by ________ in 2000.
a) the UN
b) the US
c) Canada
d) Canada and the US
e) NATO

Question 12:

The first official UN peacekeeping mission was in the ________.
a) Panama Canal
b) Suez Canal
c) Gaza Strip
d) Golan Heights
e) Indian Subcontinent

Question 13:

The Canadian navy ships Charlottetown, Iroquois, and Preserver were sent to the Arabian Gulf as part of ________.
a) Operation Archer
b) Operation Desert Storm
c) Operation Enduring Freedom
d) Operation Apollo
e) Operation Athena

Question 14:

In 2001, the Taliban received diplomatic recognition only from ________.
a) Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates
b) Yemen, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia
c) Sudan, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates
d) Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan
e) Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates

Question 15:

R2P stands for ________.
a) The Right to Peacekeeping
b) The Responsibility to Peacekeeping
c) The Responsibility to Protect
d) The Right to Protect
e) none of the above

Question 16:

Libya, North Korea, Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria, and Lebanon have all been accused of ________.
a) sponsoring terrorism
b) invading a neighbouring country
c) harbouring al-Qaeda
d) having fundamentalist religious regimes
e) building weapons of mass destruction

Question 17:

The 9/11 terrorist attacks took place in ________.
a) New York and Washington
b) New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania
c) New York, Washington, and Los Angeles
d) New York and Los Angeles
e) New York

Question 18:

________ can be loosely defined as the opposition of incompatible wishes or needs of a person or group of persons.
a) War
b) Conflict
c) Terrorism
d) Insecurity
e) Arbitration

Question 19:

“International anarchy” is a condition where there is no ________.
a) state authority
b) government
c) peace
d) world government
e) local authority

Question 20:

Human security emerged in the 1990s as an alternative to ________.
a) anarchy
b) neorealism
c) the state
d) international organizations
e) statist security

Question 21:

Gwynne Dyer wrote that “war is the continuation of politics by other means.”
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Lester B. Pearson initiated the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Carl von Clausewitz felt that war must be seen as a legitimate tool for states to respond to insecurity in the international system.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

The Geneva Conventions govern standards of international law in warfare.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

Studies have shown that the relative instance of war has increased since World War II.
a) True
b) False

Question 26:

Operation Desert Storm occurred one decade before Operation Desert Shield.
a) True
b) False

Question 27:

The US invaded Iraq in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks.
a) True
b) False

Question 28:

The US Patriot Act has been criticized for impinging on civil liberties.
a) True
b) False

Question 29:

Lester B. Pearson proposed the first real peacekeeping mission in 1956.
a) True
b) False

Question 30:

There have been over 60 peacekeeping missions sponsored by the UN since 1948.
a) True
b) False

Question 31:

Canada’s Joint Task Force 2 was established to resolve the conflict in the Suez Canal region.
a) True
b) False

Question 32:

The International Security Assistance Force was a NATO mission before being handed over to the UN in 2003.
a) True
b) False

Question 33:

Canada joined the mission in Afghanistan as part of its NATO alliance duties.
a) True
b) False

Question 34:

Because of orders coming from the UN, Roméo Dallaire was unable to save anyone from the Rwandan genocide.
a) True
b) False

Question 35:

Colin Powell cautioned Americans not to think of war as a video game.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Politics: An Introduction, Second Edition: Chapter 12