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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much of the world's supply of oil is produced in Saudi Arabia?
(a) One fourth.
(b) One fifth.
(c) One half.
(d) One third.

3. What does Baer say the Saudis have done in order to buy influence in America?
(a) Sponsor terrorism.
(b) Cash in on tight oil markets.
(c) Create foreign unrest.
(d) Pass up on oil profits.

4. Whom does Baer say he met at the Paris Ritz hotel?
(a) Adnan Khashoggi.
(b) Osama bin Laden.
(c) The Kuwaiti petroleum minister.
(d) George H. W. Bush.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baer say the Saudis who participated in the World Trade Center attack have in common?

2. What does Baer say the United States began to discover after 9/11?

3. How does Baer say the Saudi royal princes supplement their royal allowances?

4. What are Robert Baer's credentials to be discussing oil vulnerabilities?

5. Where is Caesarea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What parts of Bandar bin Sultan's career does Baer describe?

2. How does Baer describe the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia after 9/11/2001?

3. How does Baer characterize the process by which Saudis were granted United States visas?

4. What information did Baer fish for in his conversation with Yuri, and what was Yuri's response?

5. What was Baer's business with Yuri?

6. What are the important dated Baer cites in the development of Middle East oil?

7. How does Saudi Arabia use the oil market to maintain a stable relationship with the United States?

8. How does Baer characterize smuggling into Saudi Arabia?

9. What simile does Baer say describes the relationship between the United States and Saudi money?

10. What protection does Baer say the United States government offers the Saudis?

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