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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. How many planes where hijacked on 9/11/2001?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.

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 State Department.
(c) The Justice Department.
(d) The Defense Department.

3. In Bin Laden's view, who is Islam's principal enemy?
(a) Germany.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Canada.
(d) America.

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

5. The CIA's Bin Laden unit knew that attacking Bin Laden's sources of __________ was an important component of the effort against al-Qaeda.
(a) Food.
(b) Financing.
(c) Labor.
(d) Supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. By July 1999, the U.S. succeeded in labeling Afghanistan a state sponsor of __________.

2. Bin Laden used passages from the ______ to justify his actions.

3. In what country did Bin Laden and Zawahiri published a Fatwa in an Arabic newspaper?

4. Approximately what fraction of the hijackers set off the metal detectors or otherwise aroused the suspicion of airport security?

5. In the late __________ NORAD carried out exercises for a scenario in which terrorists would hijack and use commercial airliners as weapons.

(see the answer key)

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