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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Trouble in Paradise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Caesarea?
(a) Jordan.
(b) Syria.
(c) Israel.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

2. How are Alawite beliefs transmitted?
(a) By ecstatic visions.
(b) In writing.
(c) Through initiations.
(d) Orally.

3. What did Adnan Khashoggi allegedly leave in Nixon's residence after Nixon's election?
(a) Military plans for Russian ground forces in Korea.
(b) Blueprints for the Pakistani nuclear complex.
(c) $1 million in cash.
(d) Security codes for Saudi military installations.

4. How many Saudis participated in the World Trade Center attacks?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 15.

5. What did Baer work on in Beirut?
(a) Learning about the Muslim Brotherhood.
(b) Training counter-terrorist forces.
(c) Building infrastructure.
(d) The American hostage problem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the first Middle East oil well drilled?

2. What do Muslims feel about the Alawites, according to Baer?

3. What position did Khalid hold in Khartoum when Baer met him there?

4. What did the House of Sa'ud build in the 1970s, according to Baer?

5. What does Baer say the United States government had not performed before the Saudis were admitted to the country?

(see the answer key)

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