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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ordered the National Security Council to coordinate a response against the terrorist who bombed the World Trade Center's parking garage?
(a) President George W. Bush.
(b) President George H. W. Bush.
(c) President Bill Clinton.
(d) President Ronald Reagan.

2. By July 1999, the U.S. succeeded in labeling Afghanistan a state sponsor of __________.
(a) Weapons.
(b) Food.
(c) Military aircrafts.
(d) Terrorism.

3. 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) CIA.
(c) NSA.
(d) NASA.

4. Who issued two Presidential Decision Directives in 1995 and 1998 reiterating that terrorism was a national security threat and not simply a law enforcement issue?
(a) The CIA.
(b) President Clinton.
(c) The FBI.
(d) President Bush.

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

6. What is CAPPS?
(a) A law passed to collect intelligence from foreign countries.
(b) Passenger pre-screening system.
(c) No fly list.
(d) A law enforcement agency of the FBI.

7. Who was the NSA supposed to notify of any suspicious domestic terrorist activities?
(a) CIA.
(b) FAA.
(c) FBI.
(d) CBI.

8. Who was said to have visibly winced when he was informed of the desire of the U.S. to capture Bin Laden alive?
(a) Ahmed Shah Massoud.
(b) Mullah Omar.
(c) Bin Laden.
(d) Ramzi Yousef.

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

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

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

12. Who killed Ahmed Shah Massoud?
(a) Al-Qaeda operatives.
(b) The Taliban.
(c) U.S. Marines.
(d) Saddam Hussein.

13. KSM stated that his hatred of the U.S. stemmed not from his experience there as a student, but from his disagreement with U.S. policy towards the ___________.
(a) Koreans.
(b) Africans.
(c) Palestinians.
(d) Germans.

14. The hijackers where reported to have all of the following weapons except:
(a) Knife.
(b) Bomb.
(c) Taser.
(d) Mace.

15. What does ISID stand for?
(a) Inter-Security Intelligence Department.
(b) International Security Immigration Department.
(c) Immigration Service for Intelligence Directorate.
(d) Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1993, what item was proposed to be banned from passenger carry-on baggage but was rejected?

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

4. By 9/11, the FAA's "no fly" list contained how many names of suspected terrorists?

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

(see the answer keys)

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