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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. Who is Victor Bout?
(a) An anti-terrorism expert.
(b) A terrorist leader.
(c) An oil contractor.
(d) A supplier who supplied Bin Laden with arms.

2. What was Baer surprised by on his travels?
(a) The volume of oil exports.
(b) The political instability.
(c) The rents and prices.
(d) The corruption.

3. What is Robert Baer's thesis about the Saudi royal family?
(a) It will not be able to afford peace from terrorist attacks forever.
(b) It has been corrupted by oil money.
(c) It is fueling terrorism in other parts of the Middle East.
(d) It is initiating a democracy in the Middle East.

4. Where does the oil at Abqaiq come from?
(a) The offshore wells.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Southern Saudi Arabia.
(d) Northern Saudi Arabia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Baer travel in 1994?

2. Where are most of the wells in Saudi Arabia?

3. Who is Bandar bin Sultan?

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

5. How does Baer characterize Saudi Arabia's per-capita spending on arms?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Yuri and when and where did Baer meet him?

2. What was the context for Baer's first sight of Bandar bin Sultan's estate in Washington D.C.?

3. How does Baer describe Bandar bin Sultan and his wife's social activities in Washington D.C.?

4. 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?

5. How does Baer characterize smuggling into Saudi Arabia?

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

7. What made Saudi Arabia an area of strategic importance for the United States?

8. What would be the consequences of an attack on the Abqaiq complex, in Baer's opinion?

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

10. How does Baer characterize the effect of oil money on the Saudi royal family?

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