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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 problem of the Saudi economy?

2. Where did Russians begin to have problems with Islamic fundamentalism?

3. What was the Muslim Brotherhood's goal?

4. Who is Jamal Hamdan?

5. How does Baer characterize America's relationship with Saudi Arabia?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Baer say that the Middle East nations responded to the Muslim Brotherhood?

2. What does Baer say was the difference between King Fahd and his son in terms of governing philosophy?

3. How does Baer describe the importance of American arms in Saudi Arabia?

4. What was the CIA's interest in the Muslim Brotherhood, according to Baer?

5. What does Baer say would have been different if the CIA had taken a different strategy on radical Islam?

6. Who is Danny Pearl, and what happened to him?

7. Who are the Alewites, and what is their role in Jordan?

8. What was the first event that convinced Baer that the CIA was out of touch with what was happening in the Middle East?

9. Describe Khalid Sheikh Muhammad's biography, as Baer narrates it.

10. How has oil wealth affected the size of the Saudi royal family, in Baer's opinion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Baer handle the differences between different Muslim countries? Are they lumped together, or are they treated as distinct countries with unique histories and particular relations with United States strategic interests? Does his treatment of different countries strengthen or weaken the book?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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