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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bandar bin Sultan's relationship with the Washington D.C. social scene?
(a) Abstemious hosts.
(b) Lavish entertainers.
(c) Dispassionate participants.
(d) Frugal supporters.

2. What does Yuri offer to make the deal he is making more convincing?
(a) Missiles and launchers.
(b) Protection from organized crime.
(c) Threats.
(d) Bribes.

3. Who is Princess Haifa?
(a) Bandar bin Sultan's wife.
(b) The Saudi queen.
(c) Bandar bin Sultan' mother.
(d) The head of Saudi Arabia's parliament.

4. Where are most of the wells in Saudi Arabia?
(a) In the mountains.
(b) In the desert.
(c) Offshore.
(d) In the cities.

5. What does Baer say was the United States State Department's reaction to the Saudi support in Pakistan?
(a) No protests.
(b) Vociferous protests.
(c) UN sanctions.
(d) Covert military strikes.

6. When was Robert Baer in Caesarea?
(a) 2009.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2001.

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

8. How does Baer characterize the Saudi royal family under King Fahd?
(a) Efficient.
(b) Corrupt.
(c) Militant.
(d) Philanthropic.

9. How does Baer characterize the Saudi government in the period after 9/11?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Uncooperative.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Gracious.

10. Whose oil is Yuri interested in?
(a) Kuwait's.
(b) Syria's.
(c) Saudi Arabia's.
(d) Iraq's.

11. Who does Baer say is partial owner of Air Cess?
(a) The Saudi royal family.
(b) Al Qaeda.
(c) Russian intelligence.
(d) The CIA.

12. Who provides for Saudi Arabia's external defense?
(a) Israel.
(b) The U.S.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) The Arab League.

13. What is the Carlyle Group?
(a) A group of American ideologues.
(b) A group of American investors.
(c) A group of Saudi petroleum engineers.
(d) A group of American military advisors.

14. What is Robert Baer's thesis about the Saudi royal family?
(a) It is initiating a democracy in the Middle East.
(b) It has been corrupted by oil money.
(c) It is fueling terrorism in other parts of the Middle East.
(d) It will not be able to afford peace from terrorist attacks forever.

15. Where did the Saudi treasury reside in 1930, according to Baer?
(a) In Medina.
(b) In Mecca.
(c) In Riyadh.
(d) In a tin trunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Bandar bin Sultan when he became Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.?

2. What does Baer say is the Arab way with Washington D.C.?

3. Who is Bandar bin Sultan?

4. Where is Caesarea?

5. Which nation holds the largest reserves of oil in the world?

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