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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "Gestapo"?
(a) Secret police.
(b) Atomic bomb.
(c) Secret army.
(d) Satellite.

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

3. Richard Clarke wanted to increase U.S. support for the __________ __________.
(a) Southern Alliance.
(b) Western Alliance.
(c) Northern Alliance.
(d) Eastern Alliance.

4. Where did the Hamburg group plan to attend flight school?
(a) Asia.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Germany.
(d) The U.S.

5. When was the U.S.S. Cole bombed?
(a) October 1999.
(b) October 2000.
(c) October 1976.
(d) October 2001.

6. What happened to United Airlines Flight 93?
(a) Crashed into the North Tower.
(b) Crashed into the South Tower.
(c) Crashed into the Pentagon.
(d) Crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.

7. Federal law prohibits the ________ from gathering intelligence on U.S. citizens or other people within the U.S. except as specified by FISA requirements.
(a) CIA.
(b) NSA.
(c) NASA.
(d) FBI.

8. What did President Clinton offer to Pakistan's President Musharraf in return for decisive action against the Taliban and al-Qaeda?
(a) Money.
(b) The moon.
(c) Increased military support.
(d) Healthcare.

9. 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) Financing.
(b) Supplies.
(c) Food.
(d) Labor.

10. Who was the NSA supposed to notify of any suspicious domestic terrorist activities?
(a) CBI.
(b) FAA.
(c) CIA.
(d) FBI.

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

12. What does FAA stand for?
(a) Federal Airlines Administration.
(b) Federal Aviation Association.
(c) Federal Airlines Association.
(d) Federal Aviation Administration.

13. In late 1999, which authorities broke up a cell with ties to al-Qaeda that was planning to attack a hotel in downtown Amman, Jordan, and several Christian holy sites?
(a) Islamic.
(b) American.
(c) Jordanian.
(d) Palestinian.

14. What was established to review proposed intelligence activities in the U.S.?
(a) INS.
(b) FISA court.
(c) ATF.
(d) DEA.

15. The hijackers where reported to have all of the following weapons except:
(a) Knife.
(b) Mace.
(c) Taser.
(d) Bomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately ________ of all spending on intelligence is within the Defense Department.

2. What does NORAD stand for?

3. Any order to shoot down a passenger aircraft had to come from the President or who?

4. What was the "Hamburg Group"?

5. In Bin Laden's view, who is Islam's principal enemy?

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