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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was a professor of pharmacology at what university in 1960?
(a) Al-Azhar University.
(b) Misr University.
(c) Cairo University.
(d) Ain Shams University.

2. How many members were there in al-Qaeda when Coleman began investigating the group in 1996?
(a) 235.
(b) 120.
(c) 93.
(d) 16.

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

4. When was Sayyid Qutb Mahfouz Azzam's Arabic teacher?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1969.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sayyid Qutb's father die?

2. When did the rule of Islamic clerics formally end following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire?

3. J. Edgar Hoover claimed that one out of how many people in America were communists?

4. When did Sayyid Qutb travel to New York from Egypt on a cruise ship to study?

5. When was Mahfouz Azzam arrested following the assassination of Prime Minister Ahmed Mahir?

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