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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much of the world's supply of oil is produced in Saudi Arabia?
(a) One half.
(b) One third.
(c) One fifth.
(d) One fourth.

2. Why is Robert Baer meeting Yuri?
(a) To thwart a terrorist attack on oil sites.
(b) To investigate charges of corruption in the oil business.
(c) To smuggle weapons.
(d) To propose an oil contract.

3. Why are the cylindrical towers for hydrodesulfurization vulnerabilities to the Abqaiq site?
(a) The towers are close to residential areas.
(b) The towers are built on a slip fault.
(c) They cannot be repaired without stopping oil production for a year.
(d) Sulfur dioxide gas would be poisonous and corrosive.

4. Whom did Baer suggest as a good role model for a strategy for governing in the Middle East?
(a) King Fahd.
(b) Saddam Hussein.
(c) Asad of Syria.
(d) Crown Prince Abdallah.

5. Baer says the commissions from the Boeing sale of aircraft to Saudi Arabia were used for __________.
(a) Bribes.
(b) Upgrades and infrastructure improvemenhe explosives to the Saudi army, and rootts.
(c) Saudi Arabia's socialized healthcare system.
(d) Overhead for the purchasing agents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are most of the wells in Saudi Arabia?

2. What does Baer say was George H. W. Bush's relationship with the Carlyle Group?

3. To what organizations does Bandar bin Sultan donate heavily?

4. When was the first Middle East oil well drilled?

5. How are Alawite beliefs transmitted?

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