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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "Al-Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who issued two Presidential Decision Directives in 1995 and 1998 reiterating that terrorism was a national security threat and not simply a law enforcement issue?
(a) The CIA.
(b) The FBI.
(c) President Clinton.
(d) President Bush.

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

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

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

5. Where did American Airlines Flight 11 crash?
(a) Into the North Tower.
(b) The Pentagon.
(c) In a field in Pennsylvania.
(d) Into the South Tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did KSM originally meet with Bin Laden to present a vague plan to hijack planes and use them as guided missiles?

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

3. Who invaded Afghanistan in 1979?

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

5. By 1991, bin Laden had forged alliances with Muslim terrorist groups and succeeded in recruiting _________ Muslims for terrorist attacks against U.S. targets.

(see the answer key)

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