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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 was the Taliban's most important and most capable enemy?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) The Southern Alliance.
(c) The U.N.
(d) The Northern Alliance.

2. Which Taliban leader promised the U.S. to expel Bin Laden?
(a) Amir Khan Muttaqi.
(b) Mullah Mohammad Rabbani.
(c) Mullah Omar.
(d) Mawlawi Abdul Kabir.

3. Who was the prominent preacher who stressed the importance of waging violent jihad and even personally pressed some members of the Hamburg groups to fulfill their duty to jihad by fighting in Afghanistan?
(a) Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
(b) Gamal Abdel Nasser.
(c) Mohammed Haydar Zammar.
(d) Hamid Karzai.

4. When did Bin Laden first warn of potential attacks against the U.S.?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1992.

5. Who was nicknamed "Blind Sheikh"?
(a) Khalid al Mihdhar.
(b) Hani Hanjour.
(c) Bin Laden.
(d) Omar Abdel Rahman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was established to review proposed intelligence activities in the U.S.?

2. ________ increasingly became the province of non-sate actors during the 1980s and 1990s?

3. How was the August 7, 1998, attack on American embassies at Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam destroyed?

4. Who ordered the National Security Council to coordinate a response against the terrorist who bombed the World Trade Center's parking garage?

5. By 1991, Bin Laden was running a worldwide network of front charities and businesses from where?

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