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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened after Somali warlords downed two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in October 1993?

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

3. Where did NORAD assumed that hijacked airline terrorist threats would originate?

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

5. The entire attacks of 9/11/2001 took a little more than __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did President Clinton visit Pakistan on March 25, 2000? What did President Clinton want from the Pakistani President?

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

3. In the spring of 2001, there was a sudden spike in intelligence indicating a heightened risk of a Muslim terrorist attack against U.S. interest. Give an example of what one report stated.

4. What was the original 9/11 plot made by KSM?

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

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

7. What was the "Hamburg Group" instructed by Bin Laden to do? What did the "Hamburg Group" end up doing instead? Why did the "Hamburg Group" not do what Bin Laden instructed them to do?

8. Who established the "Islamic Army Shura"? Where was the "Islamic Army Shura" established and what was it to serve?

9. What happened in 1996 at two different U.S. embassies in Africa?

10. Who is considered the mastermind of 9/11/01 and when did he start calling for attacks against America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe in detail the arrest of Ahmed Ressam in the late 1999. What information was learned through his arrest? Was this information valuable to understanding the 9/11 attacks?

Essay Topic 2

How can the U.S use the resources and the people it has readily available to achieve unity within the government and their agencies?

Essay Topic 3

How does one's culture and experience influence a person's perception of a place or region? Give an example from the text.

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