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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Gamal Abdel Nasser die?
(a) Stroke.
(b) Execution.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Heart attack.

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

3. When did the Six Day War take place?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1973.

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

5. Who is described as the leader of the coup d'etat against the democratic government of Sudan in June of 1989?
(a) Sheikh Kamal Adham.
(b) Abu Hajer al-Iraqi.
(c) Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
(d) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.

6. How old was Issam when Osama bin Laden came to Sudan?
(a) 25.
(b) 19.
(c) 22.
(d) 32.

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

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

9. Where did Prince Turki attend college for one semester before flunking out?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

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

11. How many children did Osama bin Laden have in 1992?
(a) 30.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 26.

12. 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) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(d) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.

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

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

15. What does the term "al-Qaeda" translate to roughly in English?
(a) "The base."
(b) "Believers."
(c) "God's army."
(d) "The faith."

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Prince Turki marry?

2. When was the State of Israel declared?

3. Who had signed an order for Sayyid Qutb's arrest, leading him to travel to the U.S. as a student?

4. Who did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri believe to be "the single great competitor for bin Laden's attention" (130)?

5. What was Mohammed Atef's jihadi name?

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