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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. In 2000, the U.S. and ________ succeeded in adding an arms embargo against the Taliban.

2. What does NORAD stand for?

3. Who was to blame for the August 7, 1998 East Africa embassy bombings?

4. What does FAA stand for?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Bin Laden's appeal to the Islamic world based on?

2. What are the three (3) basic problems the U.S. has had in its relationship with Pakistan?

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

4. Before 9/11, how was the performance of the FBI measured?

5. In Chapter 5, we get a background of the "Hamburg Group" as well as four other jihad extremists. Give a brief synopsis of one of the jihad extremists. What education/course of study did the jihad extremists possess?

6. Describe the training most of the hijackers received in Afghanistan. Who oversaw these trainings? What techniques did the hijackers learn?

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

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

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

10. Why did President Clinton not mention Bin Laden or al-Qaeda by name when he spoke to the public about the looming threat of terrorism and WMD's?

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

Who is Richard Clarke? Describe his obsession with Osama bin Laden. Was his obsession beneficial and useful to the U.S?

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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