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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Guess Who Came to Dinner.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Saudi financial situation change, according to Baer?
(a) During the late 1960s.
(b) During Nixon's presidency.
(c) During the Gulf War.
(d) During the Iran-Iraq war.

2. Why was Saudi oil so important?
(a) Whoever controlled it would control world oil supply.
(b) Saudi oil was the highest quality, most-easily-refined oil.
(c) Saudi Arabia was at the heart of a politically volatile area.
(d) Other nations could have exploited it instead of the United States.

3. What does Yuri tell Robert Baer when Baer asks for weapons for Saudi Arabian delivery?
(a) He does not know anyone who will handle this kind of deal.
(b) He report Baer to the United Nations inspector.
(c) He can arrange the purchase.
(d) He knows an associate who can arrange this.

4. What does Baer say the person he met with in Paris do to impress his guests?
(a) Provide drugs and guns for the group.
(b) Pay for the group.
(c) Take the group up in his private jet.
(d) Threaten the group.

5. What does Baer say the Saudis have done in order to buy influence in America?
(a) Create foreign unrest.
(b) Pass up on oil profits.
(c) Sponsor terrorism.
(d) Cash in on tight oil markets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Carlyle Group?

2. When was Saudi Arabia determined to be of vital interest to the U.S.?

3. Where did Khalid Sheikh Muhammad meet Osama bin Laden?

4. To whom were the Saudi oil fields originally leased?

5. What does Yuri offer to make the deal he is making more convincing?

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