The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did the government of Sudan send Osama bin Laden a letter of invitation?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1990.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1988.

4. What was the name of Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri's wife?
(a) Ajwa.
(b) Umayma.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Zuwaila.

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

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

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

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

9. Where did Azza (Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's wife) set up housekeeping in Pakistan?
(a) Mir Tayab Garhi.
(b) Darmangi.
(c) Hayatabad.
(d) Pajagi.

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

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

12. 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) 1995.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1989.

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

14. When didi Crown Prince Faisal formally abolish slavery?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1965.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife move to Maadi?

2. What is the name of the quiet middle-class suburb where Ayman al-Zawahiri grew up?

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

4. Who was the vice president of Egypt that offered Ayman al-Zawahiri and his brother Mohammed a ride home from the mosque?

5. How old was Osama bin Laden in 1992?

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