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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri when Sayyid Qutb was executed?
(a) 13.
(b) 15.
(c) 19.
(d) 32.

2. How much older is Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri than Osama bin Laden?
(a) Seven years older.
(b) Three years older.
(c) Five years older.
(d) Ten years older.

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) "Tafkir."
(c) "The Taliban."
(d) "Jihad."

4. What was the name of Osama bin Laden's construction company in Sudan?
(a) Al-Hijira.
(b) Al-Tara.
(c) Al-Shaffei.
(d) Al-Ubaydah.

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

6. Who is the Egyptian filmmaker that arrived at the Lion's Den in February of 1988?
(a) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(b) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
(c) Essam Deraz.
(d) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.

7. Where did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri leave a medical clinic to move to Peshawar in 1986?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Damascus.
(c) Amman.
(d) Jeddah.

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

9. In what lengthy diatribe did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri attack the Muslim Brotherhood for collaborating with infidel regimes?
(a) Blue Winter.
(b) Bitter Harvest.
(c) Al-Jihad.
(d) Western Enemies.

10. When did Prince Turki begin attending prep school in New Jersey?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1959.

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

12. What is the name of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's only son?
(a) Kamal.
(b) Hussein.
(c) Mohammed.
(d) Abdullah.

13. What is the name of Azza's mother?
(a) Nabila.
(b) Aabroo.
(c) Umayma.
(d) Ajwa.

14. What is the name of the quiet middle-class suburb where Ayman al-Zawahiri grew up?
(a) Maadi.
(b) Obour.
(c) El Shorouk.
(d) New Heliopolis.

15. Where did Hasan al-Turabi earn his master's degree in law?
(a) The London School of Economics.
(b) The University of California, Berkeley.
(c) Princeton University School of Business.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jamal al-Fadl claim to have worked for bin Laden?

2. What does the word "fitna" translate to in English (130)?

3. How old was Sayyid Qutb when he came to the U.S. to study?

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

5. Who was Prince Turki's uncle that offered him a job in the Foreign Liaison Bureau?

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