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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does NORAD stand for?
(a) National Office of Required Aerospace Defense.
(b) Northeast Organization for Response to Aircraft Demands.
(c) National Office for Rescue of Aircraft Department.
(d) North American Aerospace Defense Command.

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

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

4. What happened after Somali warlords downed two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in October 1993?
(a) America dropped the Atomic Bomb in Somalia.
(b) America regrouped and attacked Somalia again.
(c) America withdrew from Somalia.
(d) America air raided Somalia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "base" or "foundation" did Bin Laden establish to preserve his military structure for future jihads?

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

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

4. Where were the World Trade Center parking garage bombing and subsequent "landmarks" plot developed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. From 1998-1999, what scandal was President Clinton embroiled in? What did President Clinton do that seemed to divert attention from this scandal?

2. What was the confusion around American Airlines Flight 77?

3. What was the purpose of the "Political-Military Plan Delenda" and who created it?

4. Describe the bombing attempt on the USS The Sullivans in January 2000.

5. After the Twin Towers were hit, people inside the Towers began calling 9-1-1. What did the 9-1-1 operators advise those inside the buildings to do?

6. What three aspects of the anti-terrorist effort were strengthened by January 2000?

7. From the end of WWII until the late 1960s, how did the FBI operate?

8. Who killed Ahmed Shah Massoud? How did they succeed in killing Massoud?

9. Why was at least one (1) plan for invading Afghanistan with ground troops prior to 9/11 banned?

10. Why did an agent at the FBI's Phoenix office sent a memo to FBI headquarters? What did this memo speculate? Did top officials act on this memo?

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