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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately ________ of all spending on intelligence is within the Defense Department.
(a) 25%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 75%.

2. Federal law prohibits the ________ from gathering intelligence on U.S. citizens or other people within the U.S. except as specified by FISA requirements.
(a) FBI.
(b) NASA.
(c) NSA.
(d) CIA.

3. Which two principal government agencies were involved in the defense of the U.S. airspace on 9/11/2001?
(a) FAA & NORAD.
(b) CTC & NCTC.
(c) FAA & CBI.
(d) NORAD & CAPPS.

4. The federal government had some success in freezing ________ assets that reached the U.S. banking system.
(a) Al-Qaeda.
(b) Muslim Brotherhood.
(c) Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
(d) Taliban.

5. When did KSM originally meet with Bin Laden to present a vague plan to hijack planes and use them as guided missiles?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1989.

6. Who was to blame for the August 7, 1998 East Africa embassy bombings?
(a) Armed Islamic Group.
(b) Al-Umar-Mujahideen.
(c) Al-Qaeda.
(d) Abu Nidal Organization.

7. Where did the majority of the hijackers sit in the airplane?
(a) In the jump seats of the aircraft.
(b) Rear of the aircraft.
(c) Coach.
(d) First Class.

8. 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) Hamid Karzai.
(b) Mohammed Haydar Zammar.
(c) Gamal Abdel Nasser.
(d) Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

9. In 1993, what item was proposed to be banned from passenger carry-on baggage but was rejected?
(a) Knives.
(b) Guns.
(c) Tasors.
(d) Mace.

10. What federal government was perhaps the least well-equipped branch of government to deal with terrorism?
(a) Congress.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Judicial branch.
(d) U.S. military.

11. By the late 1970s, what began to get directly involved in counter-terrorist operations?
(a) The White House.
(b) The FAA.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) The FBI.

12. Richard Clarke wanted to increase U.S. support for the __________ __________.
(a) Southern Alliance.
(b) Western Alliance.
(c) Northern Alliance.
(d) Eastern Alliance.

13. Who joined with the U.S. and launched a joint diplomatic campaign to persuade the Taliban to expel Bin Laden?
(a) England.
(b) India.
(c) The Saudis.
(d) Afghantistan.

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

15. What is EMPTA?
(a) A precursor of VX nerve gas.
(b) The East Embassy building that was bombed.
(c) Emergency Medical and Physical Training Association.
(d) Pakistani intelligence department.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did a truck bomb explode in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York?

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

3. When Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan from Sudan in May 1996, he was greeted by a reactivation of which U.S. agencies intelligence networks?

4. Who invaded Afghanistan in 1979?

5. What does NEADS stand for?

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