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

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

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What college did Prince Turki transfter to after flunking out of his original college?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Rutgers.
(d) Georgetown.

2. When did Osama bin Laden first meet Abdullah Azzam in Mecca?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1988.

3. About how many armed Afrghan militias were there in the mid-1980s?
(a) 250.
(b) 150.
(c) 170.
(d) 300.

4. What position was Prince Saud given by his father for the kingdom?
(a) Spymaster.
(b) Finance Minister.
(c) Minister of Agriculture.
(d) Foreign Minister.

5. When did Sayyid Qutb's father die?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1948.

Short Answer 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.?

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

3. Where did Prince Turki attend college for one semester before flunking out?

4. What is the name of the quiet middle-class suburb where Ayman al-Zawahiri grew up?

5. Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was a professor of pharmacology at what university in 1960?

(see the answer key)

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