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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 "Responses to al-Qaeda's Initial Assaults".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From the end of WWII until the late 1960s, the FBI operated, in part, as a kind of ________ ________ service.
(a) Domestic dispute.
(b) International intelligence.
(c) Domestic intelligence.
(d) International dispute.

2. After WWII, what was the chief agency involved in setting foreign policy and advising the President on foreign policy?
(a) The Vice President.
(b) The Justice Department.
(c) The Defense Department.
(d) The State Department.

3. In the late __________ NORAD carried out exercises for a scenario in which terrorists would hijack and use commercial airliners as weapons.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 2000s.
(d) 1990s.

4. What is EMPTA?
(a) A precursor of VX nerve gas.
(b) Emergency Medical and Physical Training Association.
(c) The East Embassy building that was bombed.
(d) Pakistani intelligence department.

5. Where did the majority of the hijackers sit in the airplane?
(a) In the jump seats of the aircraft.
(b) Coach.
(c) First Class.
(d) Rear of the aircraft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Any order to shoot down a passenger aircraft had to come from the President or who?

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

3. What is CAPPS?

4. How many planes where hijacked on 9/11/2001?

5. What does NORAD stand for?

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