List of questions about terrorism

We know that terrorism is characterized by attacks and violent acts committed by a group of people or by just one person.

Therefore, the Escola Educação team prepared some questions about terrorism for you to answer. Let's go?

Questions about terrorism

1- What are the main objectives of terrorism?

a) Cause fear and material damage to the State or to a certain population, organize society and transfer power.
b) Cause death and material damage to the richest populations, seize power and establish peace relations after the goals achieved.
c) Terrorism is a violent act whose main objective is to kill women and children who follow Catholicism.
d) Cause fear and material damage to the State or to a certain population, disorganize society and seize power.

2- The term “terrorism” was created when and why?

a) It was created during the French Revolution to refer to the most radicalized groups.

b) It was created during the Industrial Revolution to refer to the most radicalized groups.
c) It was created during the English Revolution to refer to the more peaceful groups.
d) It was created during the Carnation Revolution to refer to the strongest groups.

3- When was the concept “terrorism” mentioned again?

a) After the First World War (1914-1918).
b) After World War II (1939-1945).
c) After World War II (1914-1918).
d) After the First World War (1939-1945).

4- “Terrorism” was a term that first appeared in Irish writer Edmund Burke's book, Letters on a Regicide Peace. In it, the author criticizes the fact that the French Revolution is called the Terror. Why?

a) For the author, the French Revolution did not have any episode considered terrorist.
b) For the author, only the period in which the Girondins were in power is considered a terrorist phase, due to religious persecution and deaths by guillotine.
c) For the author, the main characteristic of the French Revolution was the appreciation of peace to the detriment of war.
d) For the author, only the period in which the Jacobins were in power is considered a terrorist phase, due to the persecutions and deaths in the guillotine.

5- Is it correct to say that each country has its own definition of what is considered “terrorism”?

a) Yes, because International Law has not systematized which acts are considered terrorist.
b) No, because International Law has systematized in an official document which acts are considered terrorists worthy of international punishment.
c) Yes, because International Law determined that each country has the right to define what terrorist acts are according to its culture.
d) No, because International Law met with the main world powers and together systematized an official document that gathers the acts considered terrorists worthy of punishment International.

6- What are the common characteristics of the terrorist acts committed during the 20th and 21st centuries?

a) Ideological intolerance; practice of violent acts against only religious temples; occurrence of many deaths.
b) Thousands of deaths; destruction of schools dedicated to teaching women and attacks on the elderly.
c) Ideological intolerance; committing grandiose violent acts; occurrence of many deaths.
d) Thousands of deaths; destruction of schools designed to teach women and attacks on children.

7- Check the alternative that contains the names of some existing terrorist groups.

a) Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and the Iranian State.
b) Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and the Iraqi State.
c) Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and Islamic State.
d) Al-Qaeda, Boko Laram and Islamic State.

8- (IBMEC) In 2006, the Hamas group won the elections in Palestine. About this group, it is correct to say that:

a) was created by Yasser Arafat in the first Intifada, has always been divided between a political arm and an armed one. While the armed wing was responsible for attacks against Israel, the political wing contests parliamentary elections.
b) emerged in 1987, at the beginning of the first Intifada, with the objective of combating the Israeli occupation. Throughout its history, it committed a series of suicide attacks against Israeli targets, being considered a terrorist group.
c) he was a great political guarantor of the Oslo Accords among the Palestinians. Its founder, Sheikh Yassin, committed himself to talks with Israel and the United States, opposing the Fatah group.
d) emerged in the second Intifada as an Islamic resistance movement to fight against the existence of the state of Israel. Suicide attacks were carried out by the group's armed wing, the Al-Aqsa brigades.
e) emerged as an armed resistance group to the Israeli occupation, but abandoned suicide bombings after the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip, turning to political action.

9- (UERJ/2005) On September 11, 2001, the world witnessed the destruction of the World Trade Center, in New York, and the attack on the Pentagon, in Washington, intensifying the fear in relation to the terrorism.

On March 11, 2004, new terrorist attacks were carried out, this time in Madrid. The threat of terrorist actions that hangs over nation-states generates, among others, the following consequence:

a) worsening of ethnic and cultural conflicts.
b) end of the nation-state itself and of bipolarity.
c) weakening of right and left nationalisms.
d) incorporation of social and political movements into the armed forces.

10- (UFSCAR SP/2006) There are two types of terrorism. One, with a long historical tradition, is political. It uses terrorism to advance its cause and instill fear in the enemy civilian population. It is usually used by national liberation movements. The association of this terrorism with Islam is erroneous. (…) The other type of terrorism, more recent, is civilizational. Its purpose is not to draw attention to any conflict. If anything, they use it as an excuse. (...) this one feels perpetually victimized. (…) Its message is: no one is safe. _{Gustavo Ioschpe. Folha de S.Paulo, 07.08.2005.}

Based on the two definitions presented by the author of the text, it is an example of a terrorist group of the second type:

a) PLO – Palestine Liberation Organization.
b) AL-QAEDA – Islamic extremist group.
c) IRA – Irish Republican Army.
d) HAMAS – group that fights for the Islamic Palestinian State.
e) ETA – Basque separatist group.

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