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. When did the rule of Islamic clerics formally end following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1919.

2. Who was the Time magazine senior editor that was being questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee when Sayyid Qutb arrived in the U.S.?
(a) Alfred Kinsey.
(b) Kenneth Karas.
(c) Whittaker Chambers.
(d) Patrick Fitzgerald.

3. What was the unemployment rate in the U.S. when Sayyid Qutb came to be a student?
(a) Less than 2%.
(b) Over 15%.
(c) Over 12%.
(d) Less than 4%.

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

5. Who had signed an order for Sayyid Qutb's arrest, leading him to travel to the U.S. as a student?
(a) King Khalid.
(b) King Fahd.
(c) King Faisal.
(d) King Farouk.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gamal Abdel Nasser die?

2. Who was the founder of Union Colony in present-day Greeley, Colorado?

3. How many members were there in al-Qaeda when Coleman began investigating the group in 1996?

4. In November of 1996, Dan Coleman traveled to an American military base in Germany with two U.S. attorneys. Who were the attorneys?

5. When did Dan Coleman first hear of Osama bin Laden?

(see the answer key)

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