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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 - 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the vice president of Egypt that offered Ayman al-Zawahiri and his brother Mohammed a ride home from the mosque?
(a) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(b) Michel Chalhub.
(c) Kenneth Karas.
(d) Whittaker Chambers.

2. What is described in Chapter 6 as "the mirror image of Islam, reversing its fundamental principles but maintaining the semblanc of orthodoxy" (124)?
(a) "The Taliban."
(b) "Jihad."
(c) "Al-Qaeda."
(d) "Tafkir."

3. What was the GIA's weekly newspaper called?
(a) Narodnaya Volya.
(b) Qatari News.
(c) Al-Ansar.
(d) Peshawar Power.

4. Who was Abu al-Faraj's son who was sodomized and blackmailed?
(a) Mus'ab.
(b) Ahmed.
(c) Essam.
(d) Ajwa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hasan al-Turabi earn his master's degree in law?

2. Where did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri leave a medical clinic to move to Peshawar in 1986?

3. What is the center of opium cultivation that the Taliban consolidated control over in Afghanistan?

4. In prep school, Prince Turki had the nicknames Turk and what?

5. When did Egypt and Syria stun Israel with simultaneous attacks across the Suez Canal into the occupied Sinai and on the Golan Heights?

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