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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the vice president of Egypt that offered Ayman al-Zawahiri and his brother Mohammed a ride home from the mosque?
(a) Michel Chalhub.
(b) Kenneth Karas.
(c) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(d) Whittaker Chambers.

2. When did Sayyid Qutb travel to New York from Egypt on a cruise ship to study?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1962.

3. What name was Abu Ubaydah al-Banshiri born with?
(a) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(b) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
(c) Essam Deraz.
(d) Amin Ali al-Rashidi.

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

5. By what other name is Mamdouh Salim known?
(a) Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
(b) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
(c) Abu Hajer al-Iraqi.
(d) Hussein al-Shaffei.

6. How much money did Jamal al-Fadl supposedly steal from bin Laden when he ran away from his employ?
(a) $200,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $2 million.
(d) $50,000.

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

8. What is Dr. Fadl's real name?
(a) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
(b) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(c) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
(d) Kenneth Karas.

9. When did the Soviets begin a staged withdrawal from Afghanistan?
(a) May, 1988.
(b) July, 1980.
(c) June, 1986.
(d) September, 1992.

10. Where did Jamal al-Fadl claim to have worked for bin Laden?
(a) Khartoum.
(b) El-Obeid.
(c) Nairobi.
(d) Kandahar.

11. Who headed the emigre party Ittihad-e-Islami in 1988?
(a) Sheikh Kamal Adham.
(b) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(c) Kenneth Karas.
(d) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.

12. Where did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri leave a medical clinic to move to Peshawar in 1986?
(a) Jeddah.
(b) Damascus.
(c) Amman.
(d) Cairo.

13. What was the name of Osama bin Laden's construction company in Sudan?
(a) Al-Ubaydah.
(b) Al-Hijira.
(c) Al-Shaffei.
(d) Al-Tara.

14. What is the name of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's only son?
(a) Mohammed.
(b) Abdullah.
(c) Kamal.
(d) Hussein.

15. J. Edgar Hoover claimed that one out of how many people in America were communists?
(a) 1,025.
(b) 2,014.
(c) 995.
(d) 1,814.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Six Day War take place?

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

3. When did the rule of Islamic clerics formally end following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire?

4. When did Mohammed al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri become the rector of al-Azhar?

5. When did the government of Sudan send Osama bin Laden a letter of invitation?

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