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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Khalid Sheikh Muhammad meet Osama bin Laden?
(a) Israel.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Pakistan.

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) Islamic oil suppliers.
(d) Russian middle men.

5. Baer says Namangan is known as ___________.
(a) The heart of international terrorism.
(b) The center of Islamic fundamentalism.
(c) The center of Central Asian gas production.
(d) The heart of a new, oil-supported aristocracy.

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

7. What was the Muslim Brotherhood's goal?
(a) To reconcile differences between Islam and other religions.
(b) To purify Islam.
(c) To fulfill Islamic prophesies and make a messianic Islam.
(d) To make Islam more open and accepting of other religions.

8. What does Baer say might have happened if the Muslim Brotherhood had been treated as an international organization?
(a) 9/11 might have been prevented.
(b) Sanctions would have been imposed on countries that harbored the Muslim Brotherhood.
(c) The U.S. would have invaded Jordan.
(d) The U.S. would have found the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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

10. Who are the Alawites in Jordan?
(a) Fundamentalist Muslims.
(b) Minority ruling sect.
(c) Militant nationalists.
(d) Terrorists.

11. Where did Baer go after leaving the CIA?
(a) Kandahar.
(b) Amman.
(c) Islamabad.
(d) Beirut.

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

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

14. Why did Abdallah make people nervous in Saudi Arabia?
(a) People in the royal family didn't know whether he would continue their stipends.
(b) Americans were nervous that he would turn against his American allies.
(c) Members of the Muslim Brotherhood were afraid that he would westernize Saudi society.
(d) People in the Muslim church were afraid that he would secularize Saudi society.

15. Who was blamed for the killings in Tashkent?
(a) America.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Russia.
(d) The Muslim Brotherhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Baer describe the Saudi society?

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

3. When was Khalid released from prison?

4. When did Russians begin to have problems with Islamic fundamentalism?

5. How does Baer characterize the United States government's response to his warnings about Islamic extremists?

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