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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. NORAD existed to counter threats from the __________.
(a) Russians.
(b) Germans.
(c) Soviet Union.
(d) Koreans.

2. Which two principal government agencies were involved in the defense of the U.S. airspace on 9/11/2001?
(a) FAA & CBI.
(b) FAA & NORAD.
(c) NORAD & CAPPS.
(d) CTC & NCTC.

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

4. Bin Laden used passages from the ______ to justify his actions.
(a) Bible.
(b) Tanakh.
(c) Koran.
(d) Torah.

5. What does FAA stand for?
(a) Federal Aviation Association.
(b) Federal Airlines Administration.
(c) Federal Airlines Association.
(d) Federal Aviation Administration.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1996, who was concerned enough about Bin Laden to set up a unit of about a dozen officers that would monitor him and plan operations against him?

2. Who became the new national security adviser for the Bush Administration?

3. How many planes where hijacked on 9/11/2001?

4. ________ increasingly became the province of non-sate actors during the 1980s and 1990s?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Bin Laden do after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990?

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

4. What were the four (4) kinds of failure exposed by the 9/11 attacks?

5. What is NCTC? What problems would this agency solve?

6. What were the two classifications of the 9/11 hijackers?

7. What event gave people inside the WTC the impression that rooftop rescues were part of the WTC evacuation plan?

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

9. What is FISA and what does it regulate?

10. Who is Mohammed Salameh and how did he get caught by the FBI?

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