1. Early Yakuzadeveloped through the control of
2. as a subsidiary of Chinese triad organizations
3. labour organizations
4. as real estatedevelopers
5. placement of stalls in the market and "protection" of those locations

1 point

QUESTION 15

1. Thecreation of Kongsi across SE Asia enabled triads to gain economic power by:
2. by supplying cheap labour and opium
3. by providing skilled labour
4. by creating afairwage structure that could be taxed
5. by facilitating the education of the middle classes

1 point

QUESTION 16

1. What type of law enforcement has the US Coast Guard reduced to combat narcotics trafficking?
2. piracy
3. whale hunting
4. tobacco smuggling
5. fisheries

1 point

QUESTION 17

1. What areas of criminal activity seem to be part of Latin American organizations that were, officially at least, not part of the "mafia code" or the approved activities for Mafiosi?
2. trafficking in women
3. kidnapping
4. drug trafficking
5. extortion

1 point

QUESTION 18

1. By the mid-1990s, how much of the new Russian economy appeared to be controlled by the variousmafia from either Russia or a former Soviet republic?
2. 40%
3. 50%
4. 22%
5. 35%

1 point

QUESTION 19

1. Which "Driver" did Prohibition in the USA take the most advantage of?
2. Economic
3. Enforcement
4. Political
5. Technological

1 point

QUESTION 20

1. As Russian gangs expand operations globally, they tend to workalongside local criminal organizations.
2. True
3. False

1 point

QUESTION 21

1. What did Stalin use to keep the "criminals", both political and traditional, out of the general Russian population?
2. Gulags
3. strong sentencing
4. a fair and impartial judicial system
5. Borowski mir

1 point

QUESTION 22

1. In what way did theVorovskoi Mirin the Soviet Union control criminal activity?
2. a moral code
3. payments to the KGB (secret police)
4. deportation to Central Asian republics
5. strong connections to government

1 point

QUESTION 23

1. What is the single most important development that allowed the growth of the Russian mafia's control of the economy after 1990?
2. the systemic corruption of the previous soviet government and continued lack of government control
3. the infiltration of organized criminals from western Europe
4. the ownership of the means of production by the proletariat
5. systemic racism with the USSR and conflict between Russians and Chechens

1 point

QUESTION 24

1. Liberalization of the former Soviet & Eastern European economies allowed the new environment for small business creation but also the opportunity for ________________________.
2. significant investment in consolidation
3. creation of a strong black-market
4. protection racketeering
5. government intervention in the economy