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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "From Threat to Threat".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Any order to shoot down a passenger aircraft had to come from the President or who?
(a) The Secretary of Defense.
(b) The U.S. Air Force.
(c) The Vice President.
(d) The U.S Army.

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.
(a) Supplies.
(b) Labor.
(c) Financing.
(d) Food.

3. By 1991, bin Laden had forged alliances with Muslim terrorist groups and succeeded in recruiting _________ Muslims for terrorist attacks against U.S. targets.
(a) African.
(b) Canadian.
(c) Korean.
(d) American.

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

5. Majority of the hijackers of 9/11 where from ________ , ________ - class backgrounds.
(a) Uneducated, lower.
(b) Educated, upper.
(c) Educated, lower.
(d) Educated, middle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The diplomatic effort shifted to Pakistan, whose ________ was a key backer of the Taliban.

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

4. Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) earned a college degree in what subject?

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

(see the answer key)

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