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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baer say was the commission rate for Boeing's sale of aircraft to Saudi Arabia?
(a) 6-8%.
(b) 8-10%.
(c) 3-4%.
(d) 10-12%.

2. How does Baer say Saudi Arabia reacted after a car bomb went off in a United States training facility in Riyadh?
(a) They captured all but one of the suspects' families.
(b) They traced the explosives to the Saudi army and rooted out the perpetrators.
(c) They prevented United States investigators from making any investigation.
(d) They executed four men before United States investigators could talk to them.

3. Why didn't the CIA have information about the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s, according to Baer?
(a) They could not penetrate the Muslim Brotherhood with spies.
(b) They were not aware of the group's existence.
(c) Their informants were all killed.
(d) They were more concerned about communism.

4. What did the United States try to bypass after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
(a) Communist businesses.
(b) The Russian oil pipeline.
(c) Russian middle men.
(d) Islamic oil suppliers.

5. What does Baer say the Qatar government gave to Osama bin Laden?
(a) Access to high-technology explosives.
(b) Diplomatic immunity.
(c) Money and training facilities.
(d) Passports and refuge.

6. How many educated Saudis under age 45 support bin Laden, according to Baer?
(a) 95%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 70%.

7. What happened to the Muslim Brotherhood after reprisals following an assassination attempt in 1954?
(a) They went underground.
(b) They became militant.
(c) They dispersed.
(d) They became more political.

8. Who is Jamal Hamdan?
(a) A hostage.
(b) An informant.
(c) A militant.
(d) An opposition leader.

9. What plot does Baer say he passed along to the CIA?
(a) To kill Crown Prince Abdallah.
(b) To kidnap the black prince.
(c) To blow up airplanes.
(d) To attack U.S. embassies abroad.

10. What does a Congressional Research Service study say would happen if the United States took over Saudi Arabia's oil fields?
(a) The United States would be able to stabilize the world market for oil.
(b) The United States would look bad in front of the world.
(c) Russia and China would fight them.
(d) The United States would enflame regional tensions and instigate regional hostilities.

11. What is the Saudi royal family's relationship with the International Islamic Relief Organization?
(a) They are hostile to it.
(b) They control it.
(c) They are owned by it.
(d) They are donors to it.

12. Whose intelligence reports described the supporters of the Chechen rebels, according to Baer?
(a) Russia's.
(b) Saudi Arabia's.
(c) America's.
(d) Jordans.

13. How does Baer characterize the American attitude to Saudi politics?
(a) They press for reforms at every opportunity.
(b) They don't care as long as they get oil.
(c) They foster corruption because it keeps oil prices stable.
(d) They are highly concerned about human rights abuses and undemocratic practices.

14. When did Russians begin to have problems with Islamic fundamentalism?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1989.

15. What did Na'if blame Saudi problems on in 2002, according to Baer?
(a) The Muslim Brotherhood.
(b) Secularization.
(c) Radical Islam.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Alawite beliefs transmitted?

2. What was the Muslim Brotherhood's goal?

3. What does Baer say the Saudis buy with American oil money?

4. What does Baer say is the result of the growth in the Saudi royal family?

5. What does Baer say would result from free elections in Saudi Arabia?

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