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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________ increasingly became the province of non-sate actors during the 1980s and 1990s?
(a) Armed conflict.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Civil war.
(d) World war.

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

3. What was the "Predator"?
(a) An unmanned drone with video surveillance capabilities.
(b) A U.S. Air Force Jet used to attack Afghanistan.
(c) A U.S. missile used to attack Afghanistan.
(d) A U.S. satellite.

4. Approximately what fraction of the hijackers set off the metal detectors or otherwise aroused the suspicion of airport security?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/4.
(c) All.
(d) 1/3.

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

6. What was the name of KSM's plot to blow up several American airliners over the Pacific ocean?
(a) The "Lackawanna Six Plot".
(b) The "Bojinka Plot".
(c) The "Dirty Bomb Plot".
(d) The Shoe Bomber Operation".

7. When was President Bush informed of the 9/11 attacks?
(a) After United Airlines Flight 93 crashed.
(b) After American Airlines Flight 77 crashed.
(c) After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed.
(d) Before American Airlines Flight 11 crashed.

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

9. Fatwa is an interpretation of __________ law by a respected Islamic authority.
(a) Jewish.
(b) Islamic.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Christian.

10. In 1995, while Bin Laden was still in Sudan, its government began to perceive him as a __________.
(a) Traitor.
(b) Mastermind.
(c) Hero.
(d) Liability.

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

12. When did a truck bomb explode in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1988.

13. In 1999, new intelligence emerged that Bin Laden would spend a night at a specific location in which city of Afghanistan?
(a) Kabul.
(b) Kandahar.
(c) Kunduz.
(d) Jalalabad.

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

15. From the end of WWII until the late 1960s, the FBI operated, in part, as a kind of ________ ________ service.
(a) Domestic dispute.
(b) Domestic intelligence.
(c) International intelligence.
(d) International dispute.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1997, the CIA's Bin Laden unit knew that al-Qaeda was planning attacks against __________ interests and was actively seeking nuclear materials.

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

3. Approximately ________ of all spending on intelligence is within the Defense Department.

4. Who was the NSA supposed to notify of any suspicious domestic terrorist activities?

5. In 2000, the U.S. and ________ succeeded in adding an arms embargo against the Taliban.

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