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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. Federal law prohibits the ________ from gathering intelligence on U.S. citizens or other people within the U.S. except as specified by FISA requirements.
(a) CIA.
(b) FBI.
(c) NSA.
(d) NASA.

2. What was the name of KSM's plot to blow up several American airliners over the Pacific ocean?
(a) The Shoe Bomber Operation".
(b) The "Dirty Bomb Plot".
(c) The "Lackawanna Six Plot".
(d) The "Bojinka Plot".

3. How many members of the Hamburg group received a U.S. visa?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

4. Bin Laden stated that America can remedy the situation by all of the following ways except:
(a) It should reform its decadent culture.
(b) It should convert to Islam.
(c) It should abandon the Middle East.
(d) It should give Al-Qaeda $2.5 billion.

5. When did Bin Laden last warn of potential attacks against the U.S.?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1998.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the August 7, 1998, attack on American embassies at Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam destroyed?

2. Despite the unprecedented level of intelligence warnings, how many contained specific information as to the timing or the targets of an attack?

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

4. Majority of the hijackers of 9/11 where from ________ , ________ - class backgrounds.

5. The American intelligence apparatus launched a full-press effort to disrupt suspected ________ plots.

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