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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Gamal Abdel Nasser die?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1974.

2. How old was Sayyid Qutb when he came to the U.S. to study?
(a) 38.
(b) 32.
(c) 52.
(d) 42.

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

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

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

6. Where did Sayyid Qutb study English in Washington, D.C.?
(a) Brown University.
(b) Wilson Teachers College.
(c) Samuel Smith College.
(d) George Washington College.

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

8. J. Edgar Hoover claimed that one out of how many people in America were communists?
(a) 1,814.
(b) 995.
(c) 2,014.
(d) 1,025.

9. 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.?
(a) Alfred Kinsey.
(b) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(c) Whittaker Chambers.
(d) Kenneth Karas.

10. When did the Soviets begin a staged withdrawal from Afghanistan?
(a) May, 1988.
(b) September, 1992.
(c) July, 1980.
(d) June, 1986.

11. In prep school, Prince Turki had the nicknames Turk and what?
(a) Feaslesticks.
(b) Prince Doom.
(c) Prince T.
(d) Fiddlesticks.

12. When did Mohammed al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri become the rector of al-Azhar?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1944.

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

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

15. Whom did Prince Turki marry?
(a) Princess Al Bandari bint Abdulaziz al-Saud.
(b) Princess Iffat Al-Thunayan.
(c) Princess Nour bint Fahd al-Saud.
(d) Princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Osama bin Laden first meet Abdullah Azzam in Mecca?

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

3. In what lengthy diatribe did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri attack the Muslim Brotherhood for collaborating with infidel regimes?

4. Where did Hasan al-Turabi earn his doctorate in law?

5. How many people were killed as a result of the truck bomb detonated by Ramzi Yousef?

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