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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 - Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the al-Qaeda defector that Dan Coleman interrogated a couple of months before John O'Neill arrived in New York?
(a) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(b) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
(c) Essam Deraz.
(d) Jamal al-Fadl.

2. Who was Mohammed Atta's friend that referred to Hitler as "a good man" (306)?
(a) Munir al-Motassadeq.
(b) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(c) Mohammed al-Zawahiri.
(d) Yazid Sufaat.

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

4. When did Nawaf al-Hazmi come to Afghanistan at 17 years of age?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1989.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had signed an order for Sayyid Qutb's arrest, leading him to travel to the U.S. as a student?

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

3. Who set up a laboratory near Jalalabad to experiment on dogs with homemade nerve gas?

4. What was President Clinton's response after two American helicopter pilots' bodies were dragged across Mogadishu?

5. Who is the Egyptian filmmaker that arrived at the Lion's Den in February of 1988?

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