Deck 9: Unconventional and Highly Conflictive Politics: From Protest to Revolution

Question 1

Institutional deficiencies ________.

A) keep movements from forming
B) often spark movements
C) often guarantee the success of movements
D) keep movements from being successful

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Robert Gurr's ______________ hypothesis seeks to explain what triggers violent protest.

A) violence-frustration
B) violence-aggression
C) frustration-aggression
D) insurgency

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The largest global public demonstrations to date were protests against the ________.

A) WTO in Seattle
B) austerity measures in Greece
C) invasion of Iraq
D) G8 and G20 in Toronto, Ontario

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The American Civil Rights Movement aimed at ending ________.

A) segregation
B) secession
C) marginalization
D) globalization

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT an example of a violent Aboriginal Protest in Canada?

A) Burnt Church
B) Oka
C) Standing Rock
D) Ipperwash

Question 6

Political protest works outside formal channels because ________.

A) protesters reject democratic rules
B) working within channels has failed
C) it is easier to work outside channels
D) protesters are impatient

Question 7

Which among the following is a characteristic of all forms of political protest?

A) uses violence
B) uses non-violence
C) works outside formal channels
D) seeks publicity

Question 8

Protest is sometimes called the 'tool of the ________'.

A) marginalized
B) majority
C) government
D) angry

Question 9

Who was the leader of the guerrilla war against US troops in Nicaragua?

A) Che Guevara
B) Augusto César Sandino
C) The ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom)
D) Manuel Noriega

Question 10

According to the text, which among the following could be considered a political protest?

A) a court case against the government
B) a boycott of a product or service
C) lobbying a member of the legislature
D) forming an interest group

Question 11

_________ is defined as the use of physical force with a political objective.

A) Coercion
B) Political violence
C) Political demonstration
D) Criminal violence

Question 12

Which among the following is an example of a transnational political protest?

A) secessionist movement in Quebec
B) the anti-globalization movement
C) the civil rights movement
D) the farmers' movement

Question 13

What method did farmers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries use to protest their perceived exclusion from power?

A) rioting
B) sit-ins
C) form political parties
D) general strike

Question 14

Who said that "when (guerrilla warfare) is directed by a leader with a genius of war, an effective (counter-insurgency) campaign becomes well-nigh impossible"?

A) C.E. Callwell
B) Che Guevara
C) Thomas Hobbes
D) Mao Zedong

Question 15

Governments' use of violence systematically as a regular instrument to repress dissent and maintain order is called ________.

A) political violence
B) systemic violence
C) police brutality
D) regime violence

Question 16

Which of the following is a form of violent political protest?

A) assassinations
B) demonstrations
C) building occupations
D) civil disobedience

Question 17

Political protest refers to ________.

A) what happens in Parliament
B) a type of oppositional action
C) lobbying efforts
D) a cabinet revolt

Question 18

Which among the following was one of the most commonly-used strategies of the American civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960s?

A) hunger strikes
B) insurgency
C) voting
D) sit-ins

Question 19

Which of the following violent movements was led by Louis Riel?

A) Ipperwash
B) Rebellions of 1837-1838
C) FLQ Crisis
D) the Red River Rebellion

Question 20

The openings that political institutions and processes offer to or withhold from social movements are known as _____________.

A) contentious politics
B) marginalization
C) institutional deficiencies
D) political opportunity structures

Question 21

The Arab Spring protests used social media like Twitter and Facebook to communicate within the respective movements.

Question 22

A wave of protests across the Arab world began in Tunisia in December 2010.

Question 23

What are 'political opportunity structures'?

Question 24

The most famous theory of revolution comes from _____________?

A) John Stuart Mill
B) Hannah Arendt
C) Karl Marx
D) Karl Popper

Question 25

Democracies never resort to regime violence.

Question 26

What are three main types of political violence?

Question 27

Guerrilla warfare has only existed in the 20th century.

Question 28

What is the difference between a political and a social revolution?

A) a political revolution takes much longer than a social revolution
B) a social revolution is non-violent while a political revolution involves violence
C) a political revolution involves guerrilla warfare rather than insurgency
D) a social revolution involves the remaking of society and not just the rulers

Question 29

Terrorism is a form of political violence used only by non-governmental groups.

Question 30

The Occupy movement took root in most countries.

Question 31

Authorities in the American South often refused to act against violent acts committed by the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 32

What are 5 features of guerrilla warfare?

Question 33

Which among the following was a nearly non-violent revolution?

A) the French Revolution of 1789
B) the Iranian Revolution of 1979
C) the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989
D) the FLQ crisis of 1970 in Canada

Question 34

The FLQ incident and the crash of Air India Flight 182 are examples of ____________.

A) terrorism in Canada
B) terrorism in the United States
C) terrorism in India
D) terrorism in Sri Lanka

Question 35

Guerrilla warfare was the strategy chosen by Gandhi in India from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Question 36

What are three traits of political protest?

Question 37

What are some of the pros and cons of using social media to organize political protests?

Question 38

Canada's peace movement succeeded in halting cruise missile testing in Alberta in the 1980s.

Question 39

Suicide terrorism had claimed the greatest number of victims in ________.

A) Ireland
B) China
C) Sri Lanka
D) the Basque province of Spain

Question 40

Political revolutions are those that bring fundamental economic, political, and social changes.

Question 41

What are three ways in which violence can enter politics?

Question 42

Briefly explain how terrorism differs from other forms of political violence and how it is explained by its perpetrators.

Question 43

Discuss the role of political protest in a democracy.