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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 Saudi petroleum engineers.
(b) A group of American military advisors.
(c) A group of American investors.
(d) A group of American ideologues.

2. To whom were the Saudi oil fields originally leased?
(a) Exxon.
(b) Total.
(c) Standard Oil.
(d) Gazprom.

3. Why are the cylindrical towers for hydrodesulfurization vulnerabilities to the Abqaiq site?
(a) Sulfur dioxide gas would be poisonous and corrosive.
(b) They cannot be repaired without stopping oil production for a year.
(c) The towers are built on a slip fault.
(d) The towers are close to residential areas.

4. What makes smuggling into Saudi Arabia easy, according to Robert Baer?
(a) Lawlessness.
(b) Corrupt border guards.
(c) Vast terrorist networks.
(d) Open borders.

5. How does Baer characterize Saudi Arabia's per-capita spending on arms?
(a) Highest in the world.
(b) Second highest in the Middle East behind Israel.
(c) Second to the U.S.
(d) Highest in the Middle East.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Bandar bin Sultan when he became Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.?

2. What would the effect of a stoppage of the Abqaiq facility mean for the American economy?

3. What does Baer say the United States government had not performed before the Saudis were admitted to the country?

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

5. What does Baer say was George H. W. Bush's relationship with the Carlyle Group?

Short Essay Questions

1. What deal did Yuri propose?

2. What threats of violence does Baer describe in Saudi Arabia?

3. What makes the Abqaiq crude oil complex vulnerable to terrorist attacks, according to Baer?

4. How does Baer characterize Adnan Khashoggi?

5. Who are the Wahhabis, and what is their role in Saudi culture?

6. What aspect of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States around the time of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001, does Baer describe?

7. How does Baer characterize smuggling into Saudi Arabia?

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

9. What other vulnerabilities does Baer describe in the Saudi oil system?

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

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