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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months before 9/11 were all the hijackers in the U.S.?
(a) 12.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. What is the name of the main mechanism for communicating sensitive intelligence to the President?
(a) The President's Sensitive Intelligence Meeting.
(b) The President's Daily Brief.
(c) The Sensitive Intelligence Meeting for the President.
(d) The President's Daily News.

3. Who created the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management?
(a) Thomas Willett.
(b) Rudolph Giuliani.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) Jacob Radcliff.

4. Who stated, "We're at war"?
(a) Richard Cheney.
(b) Richard Clarke.
(c) President Bush.
(d) Rudolph Giuliani.

5. After the 9/11 attacks, to where was President Bush taken?
(a) Washington, DC.
(b) New York.
(c) Laughlin Air Force Base.
(d) Offutt Air Force Base.

6. What is another name for the analysis from the enemy's perspective?
(a) "Black Team" analysis.
(b) "Red Team" analysis.
(c) "Blue Team" analysis.
(d) "Orange Team" analysis.

7. Despite the unprecedented level of intelligence warnings, how many contained specific information as to the timing or the targets of an attack?
(a) 75.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 0.

8. Reports show that al-Qaeda has tried to acquire or make nuclear weapons for at least ________ years.
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 5.

9. Afghanistan dropped from the U.S radar after the withdrawal of the ______ ______.
(a) Census Bureau.
(b) Soviet Union.
(c) Refugee Resettlement.
(d) United Nations.

10. Who is Afghanistan's President?
(a) Hamid Karzai.
(b) Ilham Aliyev.
(c) Ismail Omar Guelleh.
(d) Mikheil Saakashvili.

11. Which hijacker left California to return home to Yemen?
(a) Nawaf al Hazmi.
(b) Majed Moqed.
(c) Khalid al Mihdhar.
(d) Ahmed al Nami.

12. What is INS?
(a) Immigration and Naturalization Service.
(b) Immigrant and Natural Selection.
(c) Information for National Security.
(d) Inter-American Nations Security.

13. State and local law enforcement agencies were asked to exercise maximum vigilance and to report any suspicions to who?
(a) The FAA.
(b) The CIA.
(c) The FBI.
(d) The President.

14. In mid-July 2001, new reports indicated that Bin Laden's plans encountered delays of up to ________ months.
(a) 6.
(b) 24.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

15. When did construction begin on the WTC complex?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1966.

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ is a uniquely implacable ideology that cannot be reasoned with and it must be destroyed and is subscribed to by only a small percentage of Muslims.

2. In 1998-1999, President Clinton was preparing the government for possible war against which country?

3. What is CENTCOM?

4. Who told the Commission that "the system was blinking red" because the FAA warned airlines about an increased threat of hijackings, but the warning focused on overseas threats.

5. Who was the lead agency dealing with al-Qaeda?

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