University of California, Davis

SAS 7V

Midterm 2

1)“Did you rob the back on Friday?” versus “Are you in New Jersey?” would fall into whcih class of polygraph question?

2. Percentage of deceptive cases that give positive results would be considered which property of polygraph tests?
3. As a young man North Korea’s leader Kim­Jong_un went to school in which country?
4. When did Korea split into North and South?
5. According to Gartzke and Kroenig the number of nations with nuclear weapons capabilities is in the neighborhood of                 countries.
6. The goal of Boko Haram is to overthrow the              government and create an Islamic State.
7. According to Gartzke and Kroenig nuclear weapons owners become              .
8. The model term paper (Life Span) shown in the Writing Videos Part II playlist that you will use as a guide in SAS 7V contained                          table(s) and            graphs(s).
9. Why do countries want nuclear weapons?
10. Which of the following countries did NOT acquire nuclear weapon technology by an ally or through a policy?
11. At best, the accuracy range of polygraphs is around          .
12. What was the Manhattan Project?
13. Men with remote lonely assignments may be targeted by a woman referred to in the spy busi­ ness as a                          to obtain classified information.
14. In the PBS documentary on North Korea a woman was confronted by a policeman because it was illegal to                                 .
15. What was one of the unique aspects mentioned about the products shown in Department Store #1 in the PBS documentary on North Korea?

16. Boko Haram means             ?
17. According to Gartze and Kroenig, nuclear weapons owners become                 .
18. The total length of the model term paper (Life Span) shown in the Writing Videos Part II playlist was      pages.

19. Which of the following is NOT a lesson learned from the history of nuclear proliferation?
20. Nuclear weapons induce      levels of violence but/and                full scale war.
21. The architects of the interrogation program       (from the CIA Torture Report).
22. From NY Times article “Cascade of Errors: Attack on Doctors without Borders Hospital”. What were the consequences for the 16th American military personnel involved in the “Cascade of Er­ rors”?
23. The shift in power from a state to a set of non­state actors is referred to as        .
24. Dr. Sophal Ear noted that criminals like Bernie Madoff received a 150 year sentence and Ariel Castro received life +1000 years but did not kill anyone. In contrast one of the Khmer Rouge perpetrators of the Cambodian genocide was responsible for over 12,000 deaths and was sen­ tenced to      years (later reduced).
25. The use of armed forces in engagement that is thought of as analogous to bidding in cards is _.
26. The smallest (lowest level) unit in the Air Force is the         .
27. Why was PFC Restrepo’s unit in the Korangal Valley?
28. In order to play, the guitarist soldier in Restrepo secured the cigarette he was smoking          .
29. Who said “It is better to jaw­jaw than to war­war?”
30. The mass killing that occurred in Iraq during Abu Musab Al­Zarqawi leadership of Al Qaedaa were successfully stalled due to                    .
31. Who of the following was instrumental in the northern Ireland peace process?
32. Anthropologists believe that the stringent enforcement of women’s isolation from men has to do with  .
33. A suicide bomber posing as a journalist killed Ahmad Shah Massoud, the legendary             com­ mander of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.