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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Hasan al-Turabi earn his doctorate in law?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The Sorbonne.
(d) Oxford University.

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) "The Taliban."
(b) "Tafkir."
(c) "Al-Qaeda."
(d) "Jihad."

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

5. How many horses does the author claim are in Sudan in Chapter 8?
(a) Four million.
(b) One million.
(c) Six million.
(d) Two million.

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

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

8. Where did Ayman al-Zawahiri likely meet Osama bin Laden for the first time, according to the author in Chapter 3?
(a) Riyadh.
(b) Medina.
(c) Khartoum.
(d) Jeddeh.

9. Where did Jamal al-Fadl claim to have worked for bin Laden?
(a) Khartoum.
(b) El-Obeid.
(c) Nairobi.
(d) Kandahar.

10. Who wrote the scholarly report Sexual Behavior in the Human Male?
(a) Alfred Kinsey.
(b) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(c) Kenneth Karas.
(d) James Wilson.

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

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

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

14. By what other name is Mamdouh Salim known?
(a) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
(b) Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
(c) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(d) Abu Hajer al-Iraqi.

15. Where did Prince Turki pay a visit one month after the Soviet invasion?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Sudan.
(c) Somalia.
(d) Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ayman al-Zawahiri's father die?

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

3. What is the name of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's only son?

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

5. What does the term "al-Qaeda" translate to roughly in English?

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