Question 1: _____ is a small or moderate change that essentially leaves the system intact.
Mass discontent
Reform
Dramatic system change
A coup d'etat
Question 2. What is the relationship between a high sense of government legitimacy among the people and police officers when legitimacy is high?
Spending on policing is low.
There are fewer police interfering in civilian life.
Fewer police are needed.
The police must use a particularly heavy hand.
Question 3.What is likely to happen if the people are unhappy and there is no organization to focus their discontent?
They will almost assuredly turn to violence.
Not much will happen.
The people will organize themselves regardless.
They will eventually find other means of achieving contentedness.
Question 4. 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. 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. Which of the following statements is generally true of sovereign nations?
Laws allow individuals to settle grievances in court.
The lack of legal enforcement forces most to settle disputes on their own.
The spirit of the law often conflicts with the letter of the law.
Written law sometimes conflicts with law as it occurs in practice.
Question 7.Most countries participate in _____, a largely capitalistic competition where goods, money, and ideas flow easily to wherever there are customers.
the world market
free-trade agreements
nontariff barriers
plurilateral agreements
Question 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
Hypertension
Home-defense
Question 9.Identify one major flaw in the current organization of the United Nations.
Larger nations maintain greater influence over world financial issues.
The organization receives support from the International Monetary Fund with no real way to repay those funds.
The U.N. has too much power and thus maintains strict authority over international security matters.
Permanent members of the Security Council maintain the right to veto anything they dislike.
Question 10.Evaluate the changing role of sovereignty in today's international relations.
International relations have reinforced the notion of sovereignty.
Sovereignty is dwindling in the face of international law.
Weaker nations are losing sovereignty to larger, more powerful ones.
United States sovereignty has weakened due to the threat of terrorism.