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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. When did a truck bomb explode in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1988.
(d) 2000.

2. What does NEADS stand for?
(a) New England Air Defense Sector.
(b) North Equator Air Defense Sector.
(c) Northeast Air Defense Squad.
(d) Northeast Air Defense Sector.

3. Bin Laden used passages from the ______ to justify his actions.
(a) Tanakh.
(b) Torah.
(c) Koran.
(d) Bible.

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

5. Where did NORAD assumed that hijacked airline terrorist threats would originate?
(a) Outside the United States.
(b) Inside Mexico.
(c) Inside the United States.
(d) Inside Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bin Laden first warn of potential attacks against the U.S.?

2. The CIA's Bin Laden unit knew that attacking Bin Laden's sources of __________ was an important component of the effort against al-Qaeda.

3. On 9/11 the number of NORAD alert sites had ____ fighter aircraft on alert.

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

5. NORAD existed to counter threats from the __________.

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