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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "Al-Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1999, new intelligence emerged that Bin Laden would spend a night at a specific location in which city of Afghanistan?
(a) Kandahar.
(b) Kabul.
(c) Jalalabad.
(d) Kunduz.

2. What is CAPPS?
(a) No fly list.
(b) A law enforcement agency of the FBI.
(c) Passenger pre-screening system.
(d) A law passed to collect intelligence from foreign countries.

3. Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) earned a college degree in what subject?
(a) Microbiology.
(b) Mechanical engineering.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Computer science.

4. By the late 1970s, what began to get directly involved in counter-terrorist operations?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The FAA.
(c) The White House.
(d) The Pentagon.

5. The CIA's Bin Laden unit knew that attacking Bin Laden's sources of __________ was an important component of the effort against al-Qaeda.
(a) Labor.
(b) Financing.
(c) Supplies.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bin Laden first warn of potential attacks against the U.S.?

2. The hijackers where reported to have all of the following weapons except:

3. When did a truck bomb explode in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York?

4. How many planes where hijacked on 9/11/2001?

5. In 1995, while Bin Laden was still in Sudan, its government began to perceive him as a __________.

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