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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. To what organizations does Bandar bin Sultan donate heavily?

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

3. What does Baer say the person he met with in Paris do to impress his guests?

4. What is Bandar bin Sultan's relationship with the Washington D.C. social scene?

5. Who provides for Saudi Arabia's external defense?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Baer characterize the royal family under King Fahd?

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

8. How does Baer characterize smuggling into Saudi Arabia?

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

10. In what way does Baer say his observations contradict the official United States statements about Saudi's anti-terrorism efforts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

Where does terrorism rank among the threats to world security in Baer's view? What greater threats are there? What other threats are comparable to terrorism? How does Baer approach these other problems? Are his insights and observations equally useful in other areas beside terrorism?

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