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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. What is the Carlyle Group?

2. Baer compares Washington D.C. officials to ___________.

3. What does Baer say Saudis believe about Americans?

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

5. What is Wahhabism?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia after 9/11/2001?

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

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

6. What deal did Yuri propose?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would 'Sleeping with the Devil' be different if it were told by a woman, or if it were told from the perspective of a woman? How would an American woman tell this story? How might a Saudi woman tell this story?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the case for democracy in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East based on Baer's observations. What are the main challenges to democracy in the Middle East? What are the benefits it might offer? What problems might democracy solve?

Essay Topic 3

What are Baer's political views, and how are those views presented or hidden throughout the book? How does Baer present his views? Does he assume that his reader agrees with him, or does he accommodate for other political perspectives when he presents his own?

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