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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 "The Foundation of the New Terrorism".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does NORAD stand for?
(a) National Office for Rescue of Aircraft Department.
(b) Northeast Organization for Response to Aircraft Demands.
(c) National Office of Required Aerospace Defense.
(d) North American Aerospace Defense Command.

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

3. What happened after Somali warlords downed two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in October 1993?
(a) America withdrew from Somalia.
(b) America air raided Somalia.
(c) America regrouped and attacked Somalia again.
(d) America dropped the Atomic Bomb in Somalia.

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

5. NORAD existed to counter threats from the __________.
(a) Koreans.
(b) Russians.
(c) Soviet Union.
(d) Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did NORAD assumed that hijacked airline terrorist threats would originate?

2. Between 1996 and September 11, 2001, Afghanistan became a kind of international headquarters of __________.

3. What does FAA stand for?

4. What "base" or "foundation" did Bin Laden establish to preserve his military structure for future jihads?

5. The entire attacks of 9/11/2001 took a little more than __________.

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