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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 the Saudis buy with American oil money?
(a) American politicians.
(b) American weapons.
(c) European luxury goods.
(d) American real estate.

2. What does Baer say is the result of the growth in the Saudi royal family?
(a) Less corruption.
(b) Ineffectual attempts at reform.
(c) Secularization of society.
(d) More crime.

3. What was the outcome when Abdallah suggested his play to Fahd?
(a) He was exiled.
(b) His suggestions were accepted.
(c) He was denied.
(d) He was arrested.

4. What does Baer say Abdallah wanted to do with regard to the money from Yamama and from the Two Holy Mosques projects?
(a) Open the projects up for competitive bidding.
(b) Bring them under Treasury control.
(c) Use them to pay for infrastructure and job training programs.
(d) Use them to buy luxuries.

5. Who is Khalid?
(a) An opposition leader in Saudi Arabia.
(b) Baer's Arabic tutor.
(c) Baer's Jordanian informant.
(d) A Muslim Brother.

6. When was Khalid released from prison?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1990.

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

8. What is the problem of the Saudi economy?
(a) It cannot absorb the working-age population.
(b) It is growing too quickly for its population.
(c) There are not enough tradesmen.
(d) There are not enough managers and technicians.

9. Whose government does Baer say he thought people were planning to overthrow?
(a) Qatar.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Syria.

10. How does Baer characterize the Saudis?
(a) America's partner in peace in the Middle East.
(b) America's best weapons customer.
(c) The biggest arms supplier in the Middle East.
(d) The most democratic government in the Middle East.

11. What did Abdallah want to do when he became the leader?
(a) Institute Shariah law.
(b) Reform the Saudi government.
(c) Use the government for his own private benefit.
(d) Westernize Saudi society.

12. Why was the Muslim Brotherhood banned?
(a) They murdered American captives.
(b) They became violent.
(c) They tried to overthrow the Jordanian government.
(d) They assassinated American journalists.

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

14. Who was sponsoring the Chechen training camps?
(a) King Fahd.
(b) The Muslim Brotherhood.
(c) Russia.
(d) Asad.

15. How does Baer characterize America's relationship with Saudi Arabia?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Independence.
(c) Dependency.
(d) Ownership.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Na'if blame Saudi problems on in 2002, according to Baer?

2. What did Baer find when he was assigned to the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center?

3. Baer says Saudis are educated in ____________.

4. Who is Asad?

5. When was the Muslim Brotherhood founded?

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