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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. When did Egypt and Syria stun Israel with simultaneous attacks across the Suez Canal into the occupied Sinai and on the Golan Heights?
(a) September, 1977.
(b) June, 1976.
(c) October, 1973.
(d) May, 1971.

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

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

4. What does the term "al-Qaeda" translate to roughly in English?
(a) "God's army."
(b) "Believers."
(c) "The base."
(d) "The faith."

5. When was King Faisal murdered?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name was Abu Ubaydah al-Banshiri born with?

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

3. What is Dr. Fadl's real name?

4. About how many armed Afrghan militias were there in the mid-1980s?

5. When was Sayyid Qutb Mahfouz Azzam's Arabic teacher?

Short Essay Questions

1. What let to the Grand Mosque seizure? When did this occur?

2. How did Osama bin Laden feel about his time in Sudan?

3. 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?

4. How does the author describe the concept of takfir?

5. What caused the 1973 oil crisis?

6. Why did the members of the Muslim Brotherhood dislike Ayman al-Zawahiri at the Red Crescent hospital?

7. What was Takfir wa Hijira?

8. How did Osama bin Laden feel about the United States' presence in Saudi Arabia after the Soviet-Afghan War?

9. Who is Ayman al-Zawahiri? Where is he from?

10. Who is Dr. Fadl? Where is he from?

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