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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Baer's feeling about the CIA when he left?
(a) He felt they were out of touch.
(b) He felt they were pushing their own policies too strongly.
(c) He felt they were watching the wrong threats.
(d) He felt that corruption had caused the agency to be effectively blind.

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

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

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

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

7. 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 enflame regional tensions and instigate regional hostilities.
(c) The United States would look bad in front of the world.
(d) Russia and China would fight them.

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 managers and technicians.
(d) There are not enough tradesmen.

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

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

11. Why is this person a good role model?
(a) He weaned his country off petrodollars.
(b) He instituted democratic reforms.
(c) He protected his country's independence from the oil economy.
(d) He cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood.

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

13. Who was killed in Tashkent, in Baer's account?
(a) Islamic moujahidin.
(b) Saudi princes.
(c) American hostages.
(d) Russian guards.

14. What did Asad do when the Muslim Brotherhood tried to have him killed?
(a) He went into exile.
(b) He stepped down.
(c) He waged war on the Muslim Brotherhood.
(d) He killed Muslim Brothers in Jordanian prisons.

15. What position did Khalid hold in Khartoum when Baer met him there?
(a) Informant.
(b) Judge.
(c) President.
(d) Militant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baer say was the CIA's response?

2. What did the United States try to bypass after the collapse of the Soviet Union?

3. What did Baer work on in Beirut?

4. What happened to the Muslim Brotherhood after reprisals following an assassination attempt in 1954?

5. Baer says Namangan is known as ___________.

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