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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By 9/11, the FAA's "no fly" list contained how many names of suspected terrorists?
(a) 1200.
(b) 100.
(c) 12.
(d) 2000.

3. After WWII, what was the chief agency involved in setting foreign policy and advising the President on foreign policy?
(a) The Justice Department.
(b) The State Department.
(c) The Vice President.
(d) The Defense Department.

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

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

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

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

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

9. On 9/11 the number of NORAD alert sites had ____ fighter aircraft on alert.
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 100.
(d) 1.

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

11. In 1999, who imposed economic and travel restrictions on the Taliban?
(a) The U.S.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The U.N.
(d) The FAA.

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

13. The diplomatic effort shifted to Pakistan, whose ________ was a key backer of the Taliban.
(a) FISA.
(b) TSA.
(c) EMPTA.
(d) ISID.

14. The American intelligence apparatus launched a full-press effort to disrupt suspected ________ plots.
(a) Al-Qaeda.
(b) Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
(c) Fatah al-Islam.
(d) Armed Islamic Group.

15. What was the name of Bin Laden's main camp in Afghanistan?
(a) Pohakuloa Training Area.
(b) Huachuca Farms.
(c) Tarnak Farms.
(d) Camp Navajo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invaded Afghanistan in 1979?

2. In what country did Bin Laden and Zawahiri published a Fatwa in an Arabic newspaper?

3. From the end of WWII until the late 1960s, the FBI operated, in part, as a kind of ________ ________ service.

4. 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?

5. Richard Clarke wanted to increase U.S. support for the __________ __________.

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