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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Sayyid Qutb's mother's name?
(a) Zuwaila.
(b) Aabroo.
(c) Ajwa.
(d) Fatima.

2. When did Ayman al-Zawahiri's father die?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1995.

3. When did Dan Coleman join the FBI as a file clerk?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1979.

4. In what year did Crown Prince Faisal introduce female education in Saudi Arabia?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1960.

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

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

7. What prep school did Prince Turki attend?
(a) The Delbarton School.
(b) Christian Brothers Academy.
(c) St. Peter's Prep School.
(d) The Lawrenceville School.

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

9. Who was Prince Turki's uncle that offered him a job in the Foreign Liaison Bureau?
(a) Iffat Al-Thunayan.
(b) Sheikh Kamal Adham.
(c) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
(d) Hussein al-Shaffei.

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

11. How old was Osama bin Laden in 1992?
(a) 50.
(b) 34.
(c) 22.
(d) 39.

12. When did Ramzi Yousef detonate a truck bomb in the parking lot of the World Trade Center?
(a) June, 1994.
(b) June, 2001.
(c) September, 1995.
(d) February, 1993.

13. Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was a professor of pharmacology at what university in 1960?
(a) Cairo University.
(b) Al-Azhar University.
(c) Ain Shams University.
(d) Misr University.

14. Jamal al-Fadl told Dan Coleman and U.S. attorneys that al-Qaeda had been responsible for a bombing in Yemen in what year?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1989.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who headed the emigre party Ittihad-e-Islami in 1988?

2. What was Oman Sharif's birth name?

3. When did the Six Day War take place?

4. What college did Prince Turki transfter to after flunking out of his original college?

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

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