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Chapter 10 Check My Learning Quiz
Humanitarian Efforts
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10.1 Explain major humanitarian challenges and their causes.
10.2 Discuss humanitarian policies to address these challenges.
10.3 Outline similarities and differences among key approaches to humanitarian challenges.
10.4 Examine the main components of alternative approaches to humanitarian crises.
10.5 Critically apply humanitarian policies at each level of analysis.
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Which is NOT a biological agent that causes infectious disease?
Viruses.
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Fungi.
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Parasites.
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Ribosomes.
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HIV stands for
Homologousimmunity virus.
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Human immunodeficiency virus.
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Heteroinsufficiency virus.
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Human immunosuffering virus.
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Nearly _____ people have died from AIDS.
2.5 million.
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650,000.00
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1.2 billion.
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36 million.
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The Tutsi and Hutu fought a civil war in which country?
Sierra Leone.
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Libya.
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Rwanda.
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Swaziland.
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The American Relief Administration gave help to
European countries after World War I.
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Eastern European countries after the end of the Cold War.
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Asia after several tsunamis in the early 2000s.
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Africa after the Arab Spring started.
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About __ percent of the world population lived below the global poverty line in 2018.
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9
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15
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23
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Based in the liberal perspective, R2P stands for
Response to persecution.
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Reaction to population.
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Responsibility to protect.
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Responsibility to promote.
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During the Cold War, humanitarian actions
Could not take place.
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Took place only under UN auspices.
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Were largely subordinate to geopolitical concerns.
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Occurred in Europe, but not elsewhere.
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In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon ____ European humanism as a model for the Third World.
Praises.
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Affirms.
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Rejects.
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Reviews.
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Which of the following was widespread during the conflicts in Armenia, India, Latin America, and Africa?
Soviet military support.
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Rape.
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Quick relief thanks to UN intervention.
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The spread of AIDS.
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Which secretary general of the United Nations became an advocate of R2P after observing the genocide in Rwanda?
Ban Ki-Moon.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
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Kofi Annan.
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U Thant.
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British prime minister Tony Blair supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq primarily for ________ reasons.
Economic.
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Personal.
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Cultural.
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Humanitarian.
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In the latter part of the 1990s, President Clinton advocated military intervention in __________ primarily for humanitarian reasons.
The former Yugoslavia.
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Rwanda.
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Afghanistan.
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Central America.
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By recent estimates, humanitarian aid is now close to ____each year.
$27 billion.
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$11 million.
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$450 billion.
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$1.3 trillion.
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Bono, a member of the band U2, is MOST closely associated with
Alleviating debt and poverty in Africa.
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Promoting international cooperation to fight ozone-layer depletion.
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Working with the United Nations to remove landmines from former war zones.
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Seeking to reduce pollution of oceans and large inland lakes.
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Incidents or continuing problems threatening the well-being of many human beings are called
Humanitarian crises.
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International disasters.
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Regional fallout.
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Geochaos.
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Which of the following is NOT based on the three fundamental principles of humanitarian policy?
Humanity.
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Impartiality.
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Independence.
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Liberalism.
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Which of the following does NOT characterize humanitarian interventions?
The actions of foreign powers in a humanitarian crisis with or without the approval of a legal authority controlling the area.
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The attempt to eliminate the sources of the crisis, especially human causes. Some interventions involve armed forces.
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In cases of natural catastrophes, governments usually refuse foreign aid and rescue groups.
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Countries can decide whether they want to help with the intervention.
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Humanitarian sovereignty is the right to _______humanitarian interventions on their territories.
Condemn or fight.
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Accept or reject.
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Ease or hinder.
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Explain or obfuscate.
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A high concentration of people within a region that threatens the minimum conditions to sustain a reasonable quality of life is called
Population overkill.
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Overpopulation.
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Population bomb.
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Overcrowding.
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A rapid concentration of people can often lead to the following, except
Overpopulation in economically advanced cities.
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Slums and poor agglomerations.
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Poor living conditions.
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Increased chance of malnutrition.
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Violence and hardship can displace people within or across state borders in search of asylum. This phenomenon is called
Voluntary immigration.
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Involuntary migration.
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Persecution.
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Forced relocation.
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Migrants fleeing from one country to another because of civil unrest or natural disasters are BEST termed
Asylum seekers.
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Illegal immigrants.
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Refugees.
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Opportunity seekers.
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IDP stands for
International development programs.
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Internally displaced persons.
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Involuntary displaced people.
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International disabled programs.
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In 2019 there were 16 peacekeeping missions worldwide. None of them took place in
South Sudan.
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Cyprus.
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Haiti.
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Syria.
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After the dismaying experience of Biafra, a French physician started
The UN World Food Program.
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Doctors without Borders.
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The Food and Agricultural Organization.
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A drought- and famine-monitoring network.
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In which of the following countries has the one-child policy been practiced?
Mongolia.
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China.
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The United Kingdom.
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Japan.
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How does the Grameen Bank operate without solid financial guarantees?
It has strong international ties.
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It relies on local communities of borrowers.
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It uses credit sharks and other extrajudicial means.
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It gets official assistance from state governments.
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For realists, _____ has/have the primary responsibility for resolving humanitarian crises.
States.
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The United Nations.
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Nongovernmental organizations.
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International organizations.
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Humanitarianism, the principle that human beings, regardless of their origin and social status, are morally responsible to help those who suffer, is associated MOST closely with
Realism.
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Constructivism.
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Dependency theory.
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Liberalism.
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Humanitarian missions will be MOST likely to fail in ____________ because the region is plagued by weak and corrupt governments and an inadequate infrastructure.
Southern Europe.
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Eastern Europe.
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Sub-Saharan Africa.
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South America.
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