Quiz 1.

• Position: Attack on America, 2001 - Brief Article

Use with NATIONAL, pages 10-14

SHORT ANSWER/FILL IN THE BLANK: WRITE THE CORRECT ANSWER ON THE LINE PROVIDED.

1. Weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks, several Americans were contaminated by potentially deadly -- bacteria sent through the U.S. mail.

2. New laws increase the length of time law-enforcement officials can detain -- without charging them with a crime.

3. Why were two newspaper columnists fired in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks? --

4. What is the major change in new laws regulating the government's authority to wiretap a suspect's phone or other electronic device? --

5. Critics of loosened wiretap restrictions note that in the 1960s the Federal Bureau of Investigation tapped the phones of civil rights leader --

6. Why did the White House ask TV news organizations not to broadcast speeches made by terrorist leader Osama bin Laden? --

7. Great Britain's strategy for catching terrorists was to install -- in public places.

8. What is the definition of racial profiling? --

9. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, Arab-Americans and people from South -- report that they have been scrutinized more thoroughly than others at security checkpoints.

10. Racial profiling first came to public notice when police in the state of -- were stopping African-Americans and other minorities in large numbers to conduct drug searches.

11. What legal authority allowed the U.S. military to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps? --

12. What reasoning did the U.S. Supreme Court offer when it ruled that the internment of Japanese-Americans, more than half of them children, was legal and proper? --

13. How did the U.S. compensate Japanese-American survivors of the internment camps? --

    CRITICAL THINKING: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

14. Some proponents of intensified surveillance to protect against terrorism say only the guilty should feel threatened by such surveillance. Do you agree?

15. Why, if...