The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Lawrence Wright
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described in Chapter 6 as "the mirror image of Islam, reversing its fundamental principles but maintaining the semblanc of orthodoxy" (124)?
(a) "Jihad."
(b) "Tafkir."
(c) "Al-Qaeda."
(d) "The Taliban."

2. When did Azza give birth to Nabila?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1986.

3. What is the name of Azza's mother?
(a) Aabroo.
(b) Ajwa.
(c) Umayma.
(d) Nabila.

4. When did the rule of Islamic clerics formally end following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1932.

5. Who did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri believe to be "the single great competitor for bin Laden's attention" (130)?
(a) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
(b) Essam Deraz.
(c) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
(d) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.

Short Answer Questions

1. J. Edgar Hoover claimed that one out of how many people in America were communists?

2. How many members were there in al-Qaeda when Coleman began investigating the group in 1996?

3. Who was the founder of Union Colony in present-day Greeley, Colorado?

4. What was the unemployment rate in the U.S. when Sayyid Qutb came to be a student?

5. What position was Prince Saud given by his father for the kingdom?

(see the answer key)

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