Deck 9: Emergency Management and the Terrorist Threat

Question 1

Which of the following provided the primary authority and focus for domestic federal preparedness activities for terrorism before September 11,2001?

A) 1977 Counter Terrorism Act
B) Nunn-Lugar Legislation
C) Vincent Smithers Act
D) HSPD 44

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Ramzi Yusef planned the Khobar Towers bombing.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Emergency management is a discipline that is based on which of the following?

A) Capabilities
B) Risk
C) Funding
D) Terrorism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In 1999,TOPOFF showed that State and Local governments were very well prepared for an act of terrorism.

Question 5

Emergency management policy and strategy is driven solely by scientific calculation of hazard risk.

Question 6

Which of the following terrorists try to reduce the influence of capitalism in favor of communist or socialist ideologies and frameworks?

A) Right-wing terrorists
B) Left-wing terrorists
C) Nationalist terrorists
D) Anarchist terrorists

Question 7

The bombing of the Alfred P.Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was conducted by an individual who would most closely be associated with which of the following types of terrorists?

A) Right-wing terrorists
B) Religious terrorists
C) State-sponsored terrorists
D) Nationalist terrorists

Question 8

International terrorism cannot happen in the territory of the United States.

Question 9

Terrorism differs from natural and technological hazards in all but which of the following ways?

A) Intent
B) Criminality
C) Laws guiding prevention and response
D) Methods of decontamination

Question 10

According to the Arlington County After-Action Report,which of the following is a capability of the Arlington County Fire Department that should be emulated by other departments?

A) ICS and Unified Command
B) Self-Dispatching
C) Fixed and Mobile Command and Control Facilities
D) Communications

Question 11

The creation of the Department of Homeland Security follows the same logic that first established FEMA in 1979.

Question 12

Arlington County is credited for having in place an aggressive,well-established EAP at the time of the Pentagon attack,allowing for Critical Incident Stress Management services.EAP stands for which of the following?

A) Emergency Assistance Plan
B) Early Action Program
C) Emergency Action Plan
D) Employee Assistance Program

Question 13

One major reason behind the creation of the Department of Homeland Security was to consolidate the Federal intelligence agencies,but in the end,the only agency to be incorporated was which of the following?

A) The National Security Agency (NSA)
B) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
C) Both of the above
D) Neither of the above

Question 14

Terrorism has existed for over two thousand years

Question 15

The Homeland Security Advisory System replaced the National Terrorism Advisory System.

Question 16

Approximately what percentage of the 38,000 terrorist attacks worldwide from 1969 to 2009 targeted Americans or American interests?

A) .4%
B) 1.6%
C) 8%
D) 44%

Question 17

Today,the director of FEMA reports directly to which of the following Federal officials?

A) The President of the United States
B) The Director of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Division of DHS
C) The Secretary of Defense
D) The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

Question 18

The US Coast Guard was moved into DHS intact.

Question 19

The bombing of the USS Cole was not necessarily an act of terrorism.

Question 20

Weather Underground is an organization that has been labeled as which of the following?

A) Domestic terrorist organization
B) International terrorist organization
C) Single-interest terrorist organization
D) Lone-wolf terrorist

Question 21

The Transportation Security Administration,which seeks to ensure the security of the nation's Air,Rail,Maritime,and other transportation systems,is housed in the Department of Transportation (DOT).

Question 22

The Department of Homeland Security National Protection and Programs Directorate was a result of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act.