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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baer say the Saudis who participated in the World Trade Center attack have in common?

2. What are Robert Baer's credentials to be discussing oil vulnerabilities?

3. What does Yuri offer to make the deal he is making more convincing?

4. Who is Princess Haifa?

5. Why was Saudi oil so important?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Baer describe the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia after 9/11/2001?

2. How does Baer characterize the effect of oil money on the Saudi royal family?

3. How specifically does Saudi money buy influence in Washington D.C.?

4. What other vulnerabilities does Baer describe in the Saudi oil system?

5. How does Baer characterize smuggling into Saudi Arabia?

6. What parts of Bandar bin Sultan's career does Baer describe?

7. What aspect of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States around the time of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001, does Baer describe?

8. How does Baer describe Bandar bin Sultan and his wife's social activities in Washington D.C.?

9. How does Baer characterize the royal family under King Fahd?

10. What simile does Baer say describes the relationship between the United States and Saudi money?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Baer's political views, and how are those views presented or hidden throughout the book? How does Baer present his views? Does he assume that his reader agrees with him, or does he accommodate for other political perspectives when he presents his own?

Essay Topic 2

What are the key contradictions at the heart of the United States' involvement in the Middle East? What balances are struck between opposing trends or movements? For instance, how does the United States' desire for democracy in the Middle East apparently balance the United States' willingness to let countries like Saudi Arabia fund terrorist states?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of 'Sleeping With the Devil.' Did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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