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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. When did Bandar bin Sultan become Saudi ambassador to the U.S.?

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

3. How does Baer characterize his discussion with Yuri?

4. What does Baer say the Saudi rulers are targets for?

5. Which nation holds the largest reserves of oil in the world?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Baer characterize Adnan Khashoggi?

3. What protection does Baer say the United States government offers the Saudis?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What are the key contradictions at the heart of the United States' involvement in the Middle East? What balances are struck between opposing trends or movements? For instance, how does the United States' desire for democracy in the Middle East apparently balance the United States' willingness to let countries like Saudi Arabia fund terrorist states?

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