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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the cylindrical towers for hydrodesulfurization vulnerabilities to the Abqaiq site?

2. What does Yuri tell Robert Baer when Baer asks for weapons for Saudi Arabian delivery?

3. When was the first Middle East oil well drilled?

4. What does Yuri offer to make the deal he is making more convincing?

5. Who does Baer say benefited from Bandar bin Sultan' charitable giving?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the relationship between Baer's assessment of Saudi Arabia and the official United States assessment?

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

4. What deal did Yuri propose?

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

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

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

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

9. How specifically does Saudi money buy influence in Washington D.C.?

10. What was Baer's business with Yuri?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

How has the situation in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East changed since Baer wrote 'Sleeping with the Devil'? What does the death of Osama bin Laden do to the tensions in the Middle East? What does the shift of the war from Iraq to Afghanistan do to his observations? What do the changes in the oil market--with oil reaching $100 a barrel in 2008--do to his observations? Do these phenomena bear his idea out, or do they contradict him?

Essay Topic 3

What is the genre of 'Sleeping with the Devil'? Is it a history, which describes a region and its background? Is it a position paper? Is it an apologia? Is it an indictment? What aspects of 'Sleeping with the Devil' fit in different genres, and which genre does 'Sleeping with the Devil' primarily belong to?

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