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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 "The System Was Blinking Red".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1991, Bin Laden was running a worldwide network of front charities and businesses from where?
(a) Kuwait.
(b) America.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Iraq.

2. Who offered to attack Bin Laden's Derunta training camp in December 1999?
(a) Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah.
(b) Ali Atwa.
(c) Abdul Rahman Yasin.
(d) Ahmed Shah Massoud.

3. After WWII, what was the chief agency involved in setting foreign policy and advising the President on foreign policy?
(a) The State Department.
(b) The Vice President.
(c) The Justice Department.
(d) The Defense Department.

4. When did a truck bomb explode in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York?
(a) 1988.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1993.

5. Who killed Ahmed Shah Massoud?
(a) Saddam Hussein.
(b) U.S. Marines.
(c) The Taliban.
(d) Al-Qaeda operatives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many planes were originally planned to be involved in the 9/11/2001 plot?

2. As of 1993, the public and Congress seemed convinced that treating terrorism that occurred on U.S. soil was a ________ ________ problem.

3. The outcome of the November 7, 2000, presidential election was not decided for how many days?

4. Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) earned a college degree in what subject?

5. When did KSM originally meet with Bin Laden to present a vague plan to hijack planes and use them as guided missiles?

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