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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. When did Osama bin Laden discover the Muslim Brotherhood?

2. How did the Royal family try to solve the difference between Abdallah and Fahd?

3. Why is this person a good role model?

4. Where did Baer check the names on the list of people who had supposedly participated in the Tashkent attack?

5. What did Abdallah want to do when he became the leader?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Danny Pearl, and what happened to him?

2. Describe Khalid Sheikh Muhammad's biography, as Baer narrates it.

3. What was the first event that convinced Baer that the CIA was out of touch with what was happening in the Middle East?

4. What does Baer say was the difference between King Fahd and his son in terms of governing philosophy?

5. How has oil wealth affected the size of the Saudi royal family, in Baer's opinion?

6. What changes did Crown Prince Abdallah try to make in Saudi culture?

7. How does Baer describe his night in Uzbekistan?

8. How did the fall of the Soviet Union change the importance of the Middle East for America?

9. How does Baer say the United States influenced Saudi culture?

10. What information did Baer pass along to the CIA that the CIA was not interested in pursuing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where does terrorism rank among the threats to world security in Baer's view? What greater threats are there? What other threats are comparable to terrorism? How does Baer approach these other problems? Are his insights and observations equally useful in other areas beside terrorism?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the tension between reform and corruption in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East. How do these forces balance without turning to physical violence? How do the different parties in Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries prevent hostilities turning violent? What compromises and accommodations do they make?

Essay Topic 3

How would you characterize American foreign policy in the Middle East if the situation Baer describes in 'Sleeping with the Devil' is not a side-effect of neglect but an actual, deliberate policy? What if the reality on the ground is in fact the American foreign policy? What does that tell us about the ability of American foreign policy planners to create stable democratic states--or states of other stripes or colors?

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