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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did President Clinton offer to Pakistan's President Musharraf in return for decisive action against the Taliban and al-Qaeda?
(a) Money.
(b) The moon.
(c) Healthcare.
(d) Increased military support.

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

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

4. Bin Laden stated that America can remedy the situation by all of the following ways except:
(a) It should convert to Islam.
(b) It should abandon the Middle East.
(c) It should reform its decadent culture.
(d) It should give Al-Qaeda $2.5 billion.

5. Who became the new national security adviser for the Bush Administration?
(a) Donald Rumsfeld.
(b) Richard Clarke.
(c) Colin Powell.
(d) Condoleezza Rice.

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

7. What happened to United Airlines Flight 93?
(a) Crashed into the Pentagon.
(b) Crashed into the North Tower.
(c) Crashed into the South Tower.
(d) Crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.

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

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

10. In 2000, the U.S. and ________ succeeded in adding an arms embargo against the Taliban.
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) Russia.
(c) Iraq.
(d) India.

11. In 1996, who was concerned enough about Bin Laden to set up a unit of about a dozen officers that would monitor him and plan operations against him?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The INS.
(c) The FAA.
(d) The CIA.

12. Where did the Hamburg group plan to attend flight school?
(a) The U.S.
(b) Germany.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) Asia.

13. What is "Gestapo"?
(a) Secret police.
(b) Secret army.
(c) Atomic bomb.
(d) Satellite.

14. At the age of 23, Bin Laden was which type of fighter?
(a) Gorilla.
(b) Peace.
(c) American.
(d) Fire.

15. Who offered to attack Bin Laden's Derunta training camp in December 1999?
(a) Abdul Rahman Yasin.
(b) Ali Atwa.
(c) Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah.
(d) Ahmed Shah Massoud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did American Airlines Flight 11 crash?

2. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York froze $215 million worth of Afghan ________.

3. In late 1999, which authorities broke up a cell with ties to al-Qaeda that was planning to attack a hotel in downtown Amman, Jordan, and several Christian holy sites?

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

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

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