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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 does Baer say Saudis believe about Americans?
2. Where is Caesarea?
3. Why are the cylindrical towers for hydrodesulfurization vulnerabilities to the Abqaiq site?
4. Who provides for Saudi Arabia's external defense?
5. What does Baer say the Saudis who participated in the World Trade Center attack have in common?
Short Essay Questions
1. How specifically does Saudi money buy influence in Washington D.C.?
2. How does Baer describe Bandar bin Sultan and his wife's social activities in Washington D.C.?
3. What deal did Yuri propose?
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. What makes the Abqaiq crude oil complex vulnerable to terrorist attacks, according to Baer?
6. How does Baer characterize the process by which Saudis were granted United States visas?
7. What was Baer's business with Yuri?
8. Who is Yuri and when and where did Baer meet him?
9. How does Baer characterize the royal family under King Fahd?
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
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 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
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?
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