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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote the scholarly report Sexual Behavior in the Human Male?
(a) Kenneth Karas.
(b) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(c) Alfred Kinsey.
(d) James Wilson.

3. What is the name of the quiet middle-class suburb where Ayman al-Zawahiri grew up?
(a) Maadi.
(b) Obour.
(c) El Shorouk.
(d) New Heliopolis.

4. How many wives did Osama bin Laden have in 1992?
(a) Nine.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

5. What was Mohammed Atef's jihadi name?
(a) Abu Hafs.
(b) Essam Deraz.
(c) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(d) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jamal al-Fadl told Dan Coleman and U.S. attorneys that al-Qaeda had been responsible for a bombing in Yemen in what year?

2. Who murdered King Faisal?

3. When didi Crown Prince Faisal formally abolish slavery?

4. Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was a professor of pharmacology at what university in 1960?

5. Where did Prince Turki pay a visit one month after the Soviet invasion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife in Chapter 2?

2. How did typical Saudi life change after the first oil boom?

3. How did Mohammed bin Awahd bin Laden earn his fortune?

4. When did the World Trade Center bombing occur and what was its impact?

5. When did Sayyid Qutb come to the U.S.? What were his impressions of this country?

6. What is Wahhabism?

7. What was the Cold War and when did it take place?

8. What led to Ayman al-Zawahiri's arrest and imprisonment in Egypt in 1981?

9. How was communism perceived by Sayyid Qutb when he came to the U.S.? How did his perceptions of communism compare with the U.S. views on it?

10. Who was Hassan al-Turabi?

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