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POLI330 Political Science

Week 7 Quiz

Question 1

(TCO 9) What is the most common response to serious domestic unrest?

Revolution

Coup d’état

Military takeover

UN diplomatic action

Question 2

(TCO 9) Describe what can often happen in a changing society when, during times of prosperity, some people get rich faster than others.

Jealousy is aroused.

Politicians pay more attention to poverty.

The very poor revolt.

Economists become confused.

Question 3

(TCO 9) Why might a period of prosperity bring about revolution?

When people move in and out of poverty, they have no hope for the future, and so see nothing to lose in rebelling.

When things improve for the wealthy, they start imagining an even better future. No longer content with their already luxurious lot, they want improvement faster than even a growing economy can deliver.

When things improve for the poor, they realize just how bad they’ve had it and their anger is unleashed.

When things improve for the poor, people start imagining a better future, and no longer content with their lot, they want improvement faster than even a growing economy can deliver.

Question 4

(TCO 9) What are the aims of terrorists via their calculated acts of terrorism?

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

(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.

because it managed to rout what was then the great world power.

because it alone ended with a new foundation of liberty instead of the tyranny that came after other revolutions.

Question 6

(TCO 8) Countries generally sign treaties over which of the following concerns?

Economic sanctions, cease-fires, and fiscal cliffs

Tariffs, infrastructure, and drug trafficking

Global warming, land mines, and germ warfare

Trade, energy, and education

Question 7

(TCO 8) The _____ keeps world trade open by cutting tariffs and other barriers, creating freer trade and settling disputes.

North American Free Trade Agreement

International Monetary Fund

World Trade Organization

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Question 8

(TCO 8) _____ theory argues that leaders often misinterpret another nation’s actions as hostile and threatening, and consider their own actions to be merely defensive.

Supervision

Misperception

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Home-defense

Question 9

(TCO 8) The United Nations’ predecessor, the _____, tried collective security to ensure peace.

Geneva Convention

Fourteen Points of Peace

Court of International Justice

League of Nations

Question 10

(TCO 8) What precedent did the 1945–1946 Nuremburg War Crimes Trials set for international law?

The trials reinforced sovereignty as a defense for war crimes.

The court discounted sovereignty as a cover for mass murder.

Nuremburg outlined international rules of engagement.

The trials stated that no sovereign body could declare another world war.