Deck 4: Methods, Patterns, and Trends of Terrorists

Question 1

Hanadi Tayseer Jaradat became a suicide bomber in order to

A) help with the cause of spreading Islam.
B) avenge the death of her much-loved brother and a cousin at the hands of the Israeli military.
C) send the money the terrorist organization gave her for doing so to her family.
D) draw attention to the cause of Feminism.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Cataloging the different kinds of acts of terrorism has always been difficult. Even now, the organizations gathering this data are few and researchers and students do not have a great deal of information quickly at hand.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A shortcoming of the databases we have on terrorism is a lack of a graphical feature - the databases only output lists.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Between 1968 to 2010 attacks on Jews by terrorists and others who targeted them mostly used

A) firearms.
B) Bombs and IEDs.
C) kidnappings.
D) daggers.

Question 5

Event types describe, in the context of terrorism,

A) the kind of demonstration being held, such as a fundraiser event.
B) the response of political action to the terrorist group, such as friendly or "cracking down on it."
C) only whether or not the event was historically significant.
D) what kind of act of terrorism was committed, such as kidnapping or assassination.

Question 6

Suicide attacks are not actually that common, but they

A) receive undue attention - few deaths in terrorism are accounted for by suicide attacks.
B) are always very devastating, killing hundreds if not thousands with each bomb detonated.
C) are a natural response that many take to satisfy a feeling of vengeance.
D) may seem that way because of huge media attention.

Question 7

Research about suicide bombers is limited and we do not know a great deal because

A) their attacks are too infrequent and are quantitatively unimportant.
B) we are too focused on other forms of terrorism to have time to research suicide bombers.
C) suicide bombers that are successful are simply no longer with us and available to study.
D) the things they say lack credibility, are crazy and nearly incomprehensible.

Question 8

Much of the research that has been done on intercepted or failed suicide bombers

A) is difficult to carry out because they are immediately executed by the governments that capture them, if they manage to escape the death squads of their own group.
B) is useful because failed suicide bombers and successful ones are the same.
C) uses very small samples.
D) uses only the terrorists that weren't killing for religious reasons.

Question 9

When more ambitious studies to learn about suicide attackers are attempted

A) they quickly run out of funding for suspicious reasons.
B) we will know a lot more about terrorists very quickly. None have been attempted yet.
C) we will see that they are a waste of time; as much information as we need can be learned from failed terrorist attacks.
D) they have generated a great deal of controversy about their science, research and methodology

Question 10

People usually become terrorists because they go on a "significance quest," meaning that

A) their motivations for terrorism are founded on personal traumas and frustrations, ideological reasons, and social pressures.
B) they have a skewed view on life due to violent video games, and think they are meant undertake quests, such as terrorism, to score imaginary "points."
C) all they really want to know is the true meaning of life.
D) they struggle with the fact that each of us is no more important than the other - that everyone has their own dreams and aspirations and envisions his or herself to be a hero in their lives, when in reality the only people that matter are the ones that appear on the news.

Question 11

To those on a "significance quest," terrorism offers a "significance gain," which means that

A) they really only commit acts of terrorism for money - a significant financial gain.
B) the gains of terrorism outweigh the loss of life.
C) they attain a hero or a martyr status in the eyes of their community.
D) they learn that their life is meant to be spent on behalf of other Muslims.

Question 12

Terrorists believe that through self-sacrificing participation in a collective endeavor, they will be of benefit to all.

Question 13

Margaret Crenshaw, while discussing if the quest for significance resulting in a suicide bombing is sufficient, suggests that

A) we almost know everything there is to know.
B) for the time being, we can't learn anymore because we aren't willing to go far enough in our methods.
C) we need to know where these ideas that glorify suicide attacks come from.
D) suicide bombing isn't performed for the glory of it; people only do it for revenge.

Question 14

In our efforts to understand terrorism and suicide bombings, religion

A) is always at the heart of the cause.
B) never has anything to do with the terrorism in the first place - it's a very common misconception that it is a motivation at all for terrorists.
C) plays a part but is clearly not the whole explanation, as among women suicide bombers, the majority were committed for secular organizations.
D) in which extremes exist, such as extremist Muslims, generally push the citizens to commit acts of terror.

Question 15

Part of the blame for creating a death culture is placed on the Ayatollah Khomeini who articulated a worldview that

A) Muslims should be willing to become "human mine sweepers."
B) the media should focus on death in order to get attention and make money.
C) life is not worth living and death performed as a martyr is preferable.
D) any and all infidels should die, and believers should sacrifice themselves if necessary to kill them.

Question 16

Capella says that suicide bombing is clearly much more deadly when examining both ________________ motivated suicide bombings and comparing it to other forms of violence such as simple bombs and other weapons.

A) nonreligious or religious
B) nonpolitical or political
C) non-vengeance or vengeance
D) politically and religiously

Question 17

Suicide bombings are not a completely male dominated activity. Females have been very effective suicide bombers.

Question 18

The Department of Defense was aware of the threat posed by mines and IEDs in low-intensity conflicts and of the availability of mine-resistant vehicles years before ____________________, but didn't do anything about it until after.

A) World War II
B) mines were even invented
C) insurgent actions began in Iraq in 2003
D) the Gulf War in 1990

Question 19

In order to combat terrorism, developing ______________ was successful but a huge setback was the cost to do so.

A) drone missiles
B) nuclear bombs
C) a counterterrorism strategy
D) MRAP vehicles

Question 20

Challenges in today's society in dealing with IEDs and bombs include urbanization, advances in technology and explosives.

Question 21

Suicide bombing is an ineffective tactic that is easy to detect and stop. Researchers know a lot about their tactics and how to stop them.

Question 22

IED stands for

A) Intelligent Explosive Detector
B) Innovative Electric Designs
C) Intelligent Electronic Device
D) Improvised Explosive Device

Question 23

According to O'Rourke, terrorist groups adapt their discourse, catering to the

A) needs of the people that they claim to defend.
B) media to gain the most amount of attention to their cause possible.
C) specific individual motives of potential female suicide attackers in order to recruit them
D) big businesses to acquire more funds for terrorism.

Question 24

Horowitz states that, in regards to FST,

A) women are mostly motivated by the gender inequality in the world to become suicide bombers, so that they can draw attention to feminist causes.
B) a host of factors related specifically to their gender are not motivators for women suicide bombers, but that they are motivated by the same things that motivate men
C) Women suicide bombers are motivated by how easy it is for them to get away with it.
D) the biggest motivator for women suicide bombers is that they are actually forced into it.

Question 25

We should not necessarily study female suicide bombers as an independent category, says Horowitz, but as part of the larger category of

A) suicide bombings designed to assassinate leaders.
B) Female Suicide Terrorism.
C) crime.
D) Islamic terrorism.

Question 26

A perception of _________________ likely plays a powerful role in influencing the propensity for groups to engage in violent resistance, whether or not other entities agree that the _________________ is actually happening.

A) national failure
B) unemployment
C) widespread immorality
D) occupation

Question 27

Perception of occupation is not a perfect indicator of _________________.

A) a need for a more forceful military
B) an organization's willingness to adopt suicide terrorism
C) a low public opinion of the government
D) a nation that always portrays itself as the victim

Question 28

The extensive direct and indirect linkages between groups that have adopted suicide terrorism suggest that the probability of suicide terrorism is not an entirely independent choice, but one influenced by

A) the knowledge and skills that groups gain from direct and vicarious learning.
B) the teachings of their religion.
C) those that they recruit that are already extremist, causing the others to radicalize.
D) the opportunity and availability of resources.

Question 29

Demographic profiling of potential suicide attackers does not seem promising, it makes more sense to

A) thoroughly screen everyone at airports to make sure they aren't terrorists.
B) look at religious backgrounds as opposed to racial backgrounds.
C) close off our country to other backgrounds, like Japan has done.
D) evaluate group characteristics and focus on what makes adoption more or less likely.

Question 30

In order to prevent female suicide bombers, O'Rourke suggests

A) that we should seek to end the misogynistic laws in the Middle East.
B) to improve screening of women at key security checkpoints.
C) to educate women worldwide to improve literacy and access to opportunity.
D) that we decrease the freedom of women so as to limit their ability to commit acts of terror.

Question 31

Women's motivation to carry out a suicide attack increases exponentially if the male has been killed.

Question 32

Schweitzer asserts that the women are in fact motivated to commit terrorism more by the _________ than the ____________.

A) personal; political
B) feelings they have; facts
C) needs of others; needs they have
D) social pressures; personal motives they have

Question 33

Occupation may very well provide the ______________________ but the motive for terrorism remains much more complex.

A) people occupied with less crime,
B) opportunity, such as access to American or foreign troops,
C) attention sought by terrorists to their cause,
D) economic instability that makes people turn to extreme measures,

Question 34

The organizations know that female operatives are now less successful and more likely to be searched, and most people agree that it should be done.

Question 35

Those who are ready to sacrifice their lives are able to perpetrate every conceivable crime because they lack

A) a fundamental understanding of reality.
B) family members.
C) a survival instinct.
D) the sense of morality that the rest of us have.

Question 36

Propaganda in a death culture is above glorifying martyrdom, so it never glorifies it.

Question 37

Underscoring Sheikh Qaradawi's judgment are the testamentary videos of the suicide bombers, which do not provide any evidence of ______________; on the contrary, they reveal an enormous amount of ________________.

A) religious extremism; popular Islamic beliefs
B) desperation or hopelessness; pride and joy
C) soul-searching; self-satisfaction
D) violent behaviors; peacefulness

Question 38

It is the conclusion of Küntzel that suicide bombing is actually against the teachings of Islam.

Question 39

The second wave of terrorists sought to eliminate

A) secularity from governments.
B) any and all political opponents immediately, since if no one could speak against them, no one would be able to tell if they were distorting the truth or not.
C) what they saw as "tainted religion."
D) the police force first, theorizing that the military would replace them and make government perception worse, increasing support for the terrorist cause.

Question 40

__________ was the first to develop a full-blown death cult and a new interpretation of the scripture that says ''You must not think that those who were slain in the cause of Allah are dead, they are alive and well provided for by their Lord.'

A) Ahlam Tammimi
B) Sheikh Qaradawi
C) Khomeini
D) Chairman Arafat

Question 41

In 1993 the then spiritual leader of the group, Mohammad Husayn Fadlallah, expressed ''reservations about resorting to suicidal tactics in political action'' because

A) he thinks it's such a waste for people to throw their lives away like that.
B) there are always much better, nonviolent options available.
C) he believes the decision over life and death should be up to God alone.
D) it's more utilitarian to make several on the other side die and to remain alive.

Question 42

In 1995 Hamas founder, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, declared ''martyr operations'' indispensable because

A) it is an easy way to get attention for the cause of Hamas.
B) they confuse the Jews and fill them with fear and dread.
C) they rally the Lebanese people together and help the military to wipe out Israel.
D) it helps Muslims to see what it means to support Allah.

Question 43

What is the difference between Islamists such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda, and Muslim moderates?

A) Moderates support the use of suicide bombings for an Islamic Caliphate, but want to maintain it within the Middle East, but Islamists want the world to be ruled by Islam.
B) Moderates want an Islamic Caliphate to rule the world and frequently use suicide bombings to support their ideology, while Islamists want peace and freedom of religion.
C) Islamists want an Islamic Caliphate to rule most of the Middle East but are fine to leave Israel and the United States alone, and moderates reject the idea of a caliphate entirely.
D) Islamists reject free speech and the modern world. Moderates reject suicide bombings and support modernity and reconciliation among religions.

Question 44

Thomas Friedman referred to the death cult as a(n)

A) indispensable way to fight overpopulation in some places.
B) revealing insight into the true face of humanity.
C) cancerous tumor that threatened to spread to even innocent Muslims.
D) fulfillment of history repeating itself from previous mass suicides to mass suicide bombings.

Question 45

Suicide bombing has been defined as a crime against humanity for a long time but punishing it and its advocacy has been challenging since

A) most of it comes from the Middle East, where we are not respected.
B) the successful bombers die before we can punish them.
C) punishing it would turn them into martyrs anyway.
D) the President is unwilling to send terrorists to Guantanamo Bay.

Question 46

Evaluate the reasons why some terrorist groups want publicity or why some terrorist groups want large numbers of casualties.

Question 47

Discuss why you think terrorists resort to suicide bombing.