The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Lawrence Wright
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Jamal al-Fadl claim to have worked for bin Laden?
(a) El-Obeid.
(b) Khartoum.
(c) Kandahar.
(d) Nairobi.

2. What is the name of the quiet middle-class suburb where Ayman al-Zawahiri grew up?
(a) El Shorouk.
(b) Obour.
(c) New Heliopolis.
(d) Maadi.

3. Who was the founder of Union Colony in present-day Greeley, Colorado?
(a) Kenneth Karas.
(b) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(c) Alfred Kinsey.
(d) Nathan Meeker.

4. When did Dan Coleman join the FBI as a file clerk?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1976.

5. How did Gamal Abdel Nasser die?
(a) Execution.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had signed an order for Sayyid Qutb's arrest, leading him to travel to the U.S. as a student?

2. When did Mohammed al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri become the rector of al-Azhar?

3. When did Sayyid Qutb's father die?

4. When did Ayman al-Zawahiri's father die?

5. What was the unemployment rate in the U.S. when Sayyid Qutb came to be a student?

(see the answer key)

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