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

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

Lawrence Wright
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men did Osama bin Laden claim to have sent to Somalia to fight against U.S. troops?
(a) 300.
(b) 25.
(c) 150.
(d) 250.

2. What position was Prince Saud given by his father for the kingdom?
(a) Finance Minister.
(b) Minister of Agriculture.
(c) Spymaster.
(d) Foreign Minister.

3. How many horses does the author claim are in Sudan in Chapter 8?
(a) Four million.
(b) Six million.
(c) One million.
(d) Two million.

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

5. Where was Wadih el-Hage born?
(a) Somalia.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Lebanon.
(d) Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Azza give birth to Nabila?

2. How did Gamal Abdel Nasser die?

3. What political Islamist party was expected to win in Algeria in 1992?

4. When did Ramzi Yousef detonate a truck bomb in the parking lot of the World Trade Center?

5. When did the Six Day War take place?

(see the answer key)

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