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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Wechsler learn that al Qaeda gets most of its finances from?
(a) His father's business.
(b) Non-government organizations and Islamic charities.
(c) The Sudanese government.
(d) From bin Laden's valid personal businesses.

2. How does al Qaeda indirectly fund terrorism so they are not caught?
(a) Through fabricated charities, museums, mosques, and cultural centers all over the world.
(b) They use conterfeit money.
(c) They do not use a central banking system.
(d) They keep all their money in the Caribbean or Switzerland.

3. According to Clarke, what is the global response to the U.S.'s invasion of Iraq after 9/11?
(a) Heightened hatred for America among Muslim youth.
(b) Surprise positive response from other Muslim nations.
(c) General support to finally oust Hussein.
(d) Western support but larger relationship gap from Muslim countries.

4. Clarke models his work with Will Wechsler after seeing success against what other crime group?
(a) The Medellin drug cartel.
(b) The Chicago mob scene.
(c) Hezbollah.
(d) The Cali drug cartel.

5. What approval does Clarke ask for from Madeleine Albright?
(a) More manpower to find terrorists' funding.
(b) To bomb Afgahnistan.
(c) Run an interagency process to protect U.S. embassies.
(d) Approval to publicly threaten Taliban and bin Laden.

6. What does Clarke suggest will help weaken the Taliban?
(a) Improve U.S. relations with developing countries.
(b) Strengthen U.S. friendship with Pakistan.
(c) Using the Taliban's own bombing tactics on their known facilities.
(d) Helping the Northern Alliance.

7. As Clarke handles recent terrorist attacks against the U.S., with many dead and injured, what is headlining the media?
(a) The need for homeland security.
(b) Clinton's infidelity scandal.
(c) American Idol.
(d) How Republicans hold Congress majority.

8. What does the FBI notice in the summer of 2001?
(a) They are the prime department to catch al Qaeda.
(b) Strange events in flight schools across U.S.
(c) There are no active al Qaeda cells in the U.S.
(d) There are al Qaeda sleeper cells in the U.S.

9. With Executive Order 13099, what does Clarke finally get to focus on?
(a) Prevention and not just response.
(b) Bioterrorism.
(c) Stopping terrorism financing.
(d) Chemical agents in Shifa.

10. What characteristic does Usama bin Laden look for in jihad availability?
(a) Small countries that are threatened by superpowers.
(b) Christian nations.
(c) Muslim minorities who want to gain independence.
(d) Countries where Muslim factions fight with one another.

11. What is the government's response to the rise in terrorism during Clinton's administration?
(a) Senior officials feel prepared and are not worried.
(b) The Pentagon seems worried, but the White House does not see the urgency.
(c) Some are alarmed, but most do not see the urgency.
(d) Most go to work waiting for something big to happen.

12. What threat is part of Executive Order 13099 against those that finance terrorist organizations?
(a) Lifetime imprisonment.
(b) U.N. banishment.
(c) War with them as well as the terrorist organization.
(d) Sanctions.

13. Why does the CSG not take extra measures to snatch Khalid Sheik Muhammad?
(a) They do not realize he is the mastermind behind WTC until after 9/11.
(b) Division within CSG takes over the goal of the snatch.
(c) Qatar's government gives them no choice.
(d) They believe Muhammad is a bumbling fool and thinks it will be easy.

14. As an Assistant Secretary of State, what information does Clarke learn about the Soviet Union's weapons programs?
(a) They instituted a biological weapons program in 1984.
(b) They were properly destroyed in 1973.
(c) They never had a valid biological or chemical weapons program to fear.
(d) They did not destroy their biological weapons programs in 1973.

15. What is Iraq's reported plan to deter the U.S. from invading?
(a) They will take hostages from the U.S. Embassy.
(b) They will simulate a nuclear weapons attack.
(c) They will bring suicide bombers into the U.S.
(d) They will use chemical weapons on U.S. ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do some believe it is not a good idea to bomb Afghanistan?

2. What plan of attack does al Qaeda execute in Indonesia?

3. What does the Millennium After Action review mostly focus on?

4. Who is the first foreign rescue team to arrive in Africa when a terrorist attack hits U.S. soil?

5. To get fresh eyes looking for bin Laden, what does the CSG turn to?

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