Video Quiz - Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism

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. "Block Democracy" refers to

a. The fact that the same political party controlled Italian politics for 35 years correct incorrect

b. The tendency in Italian life for all important decisions to be made by neighborhood committees correct incorrect

c. An anagram of the initials of the five political parties that fought the Red Brigades to a standstill during the "Italian Reunification" struggle correct incorrect

d. The coalition of labor unions, business owners, and politicians that ran Italian life after the Second World War correct incorrect

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. Why did the Central Committee of the Red Brigade reject Napoleoni as a person targeted for recruitment?

a. She lacked the necessary money to help the organization purchase weapons correct incorrect

b. She was already a clandestine member of a splinter group of Trotskyites correct incorrect

c. She was too opinionated and single-minded correct incorrect

d. The group did not let women join, a sign of the sexism in Italian existing even in revolutionary organizations correct incorrect

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. Somewhat controversially, Napoleoni says that an economic lens provides the best way to understand what drove the actions of the Red Brigades. She believes this because

a. The teachings of Karl Marx say this quite directly and the group lived by Marx correct incorrect

b. When the police finally rolled up the Red Brigade network, it was because of a tip that members were stealing from poor boxes in churches correct incorrect

c. There is no other explanation for the dangerous, aggressive, and anti-social behavior correct incorrect

d. The group was constantly short of money, because "living underground" is expensive; they needed several million dollars a day correct incorrect

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. Napoleoni asserts that the average member of a terrorist group is focused on ________ because the leadership ___________

a. Ideology . . . sets the fundraising goals without the input of lower-ranking members correct incorrect

b. Learning the skills needed to fight . . . organizes training sessions that all must attend correct incorrect

c. Money . . . is a small group that sets policy correct incorrect

d. Recruiting new members . . . often executes members who do not meet the high standards of the group correct incorrect

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. For Napoleoni a high-security Italian prison was the scene for what illuminating realization?

a. The captured leader of the Red Brigades sound exactly like a banker in the City of London correct incorrect

b. No social ill, no amount of economic inequality is worth spending years in prison correct incorrect

c. Even members of terror groups like to sail correct incorrect

d. Her childhood friend who joined the Red Brigades was happy to be in prison because she no longer had to hunt for food like a Stone Age hunter-gatherers correct incorrect