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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 "The System Was Blinking Red".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is CAPPS?
(a) No fly list.
(b) A law passed to collect intelligence from foreign countries.
(c) Passenger pre-screening system.
(d) A law enforcement agency of the FBI.

2. After 9/11/2001, U.S. officials learned from ________ intelligence that Moussaoui had attended a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
(a) German.
(b) Israeli.
(c) Iraqi.
(d) British.

3. Who was nicknamed "Blind Sheikh"?
(a) Hani Hanjour.
(b) Omar Abdel Rahman.
(c) Khalid al Mihdhar.
(d) Bin Laden.

4. When did KSM originally meet with Bin Laden to present a vague plan to hijack planes and use them as guided missiles?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1989.

5. By 1991, Bin Laden was running a worldwide network of front charities and businesses from where?
(a) Iraq.
(b) America.
(c) Kuwait.
(d) Sudan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became the new national security adviser for the Bush Administration?

2. What was the name of KSM's plot to blow up several American airliners over the Pacific ocean?

3. By 9/11, the FAA's "no fly" list contained how many names of suspected terrorists?

4. As of 1993, the public and Congress seemed convinced that treating terrorism that occurred on U.S. soil was a ________ ________ problem.

5. Who was the NSA supposed to notify of any suspicious domestic terrorist activities?

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