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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(b) Kenneth Karas.
(c) Alfred Kinsey.
(d) Whittaker Chambers.

2. When did Mohammed al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri become the rector of al-Azhar?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1919.

3. When was the State of Israel declared?
(a) June 12, 1950.
(b) May 14, 1948.
(c) September 14, 1946.
(d) July 12, 1944.

4. When did Sayyid Qutb travel to New York from Egypt on a cruise ship to study?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1953.

5. Where did Ayman al-Zawahiri likely meet Osama bin Laden for the first time, according to the author in Chapter 3?
(a) Riyadh.
(b) Jeddeh.
(c) Medina.
(d) Khartoum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did King Faisal give to Prince Turki as his sons helped him consolidate his power?

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

3. Jamal al-Fadl told Dan Coleman and U.S. attorneys that al-Qaeda had been responsible for a bombing in Yemen in what year?

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

5. When did the Six Day War take place?

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