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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Egypt and Syria stun Israel with simultaneous attacks across the Suez Canal into the occupied Sinai and on the Golan Heights?
(a) June, 1976.
(b) September, 1977.
(c) October, 1973.
(d) May, 1971.

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

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

4. Who headed the emigre party Ittihad-e-Islami in 1988?
(a) Sheikh Kamal Adham.
(b) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
(c) Kenneth Karas.
(d) Hussein al-Shaffei.

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

6. What was Osama bin Laden's agricultural company in Sudan called?
(a) Al-Thimar al-Mubaraka.
(b) Abu Hajer al-Iraqi.
(c) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
(d) Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

7. Where did Ramzi Yousef flee to after detonating a truck bomb at the World Trade Center?
(a) Iran.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Iraq.
(d) Egypt.

8. What was the unemployment rate in the U.S. when Sayyid Qutb came to be a student?
(a) Less than 4%.
(b) Less than 2%.
(c) Over 15%.
(d) Over 12%.

9. When was Mahfouz Azzam arrested following the assassination of Prime Minister Ahmed Mahir?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1953.

10. What college did Prince Turki transfter to after flunking out of his original college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Rutgers.
(c) Yale.
(d) Georgetown.

11. What was Oman Sharif's birth name?
(a) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(b) Kenneth Karas.
(c) Nathan Meeker.
(d) Michel Chalhub.

12. From where did Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife move to Maadi?
(a) Luxor.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Heliopolis.
(d) Giza.

13. When was Sayyid Qutb Mahfouz Azzam's Arabic teacher?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1988.

14. Who had signed an order for Sayyid Qutb's arrest, leading him to travel to the U.S. as a student?
(a) King Faisal.
(b) King Fahd.
(c) King Khalid.
(d) King Farouk.

15. Who was the national security advisor for the Carter administration?
(a) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(b) Sheikh Kamal Adham.
(c) Yazid Sufaat.
(d) Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Osama bin Laden in 1992?

3. Who wrote the scholarly report Sexual Behavior in the Human Male?

4. Who was the founder of Union Colony in present-day Greeley, Colorado?

5. How many members were there in al-Qaeda when Coleman began investigating the group in 1996?

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