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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many members were there in al-Qaeda when Coleman began investigating the group in 1996?
(a) 93.
(b) 16.
(c) 120.
(d) 235.

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

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

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

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

8. Who was Prince Turki's uncle that offered him a job in the Foreign Liaison Bureau?
(a) Sheikh Kamal Adham.
(b) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
(c) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(d) Iffat Al-Thunayan.

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

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

11. When was King Faisal murdered?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1989.

12. How much money did Jamal al-Fadl supposedly steal from bin Laden when he ran away from his employ?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $200,000.
(d) $2 million.

13. 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) "Jihad."
(c) "Tafkir."
(d) "Al-Qaeda."

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

15. Where did Hasan al-Turabi earn his master's degree in law?
(a) Princeton University School of Business.
(b) The University of California, Berkeley.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The London School of Economics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Mahfouz Azzam arrested following the assassination of Prime Minister Ahmed Mahir?

2. How old was Sayyid Qutb when he came to the U.S. to study?

3. What was the name of Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri's wife?

4. Where did Ramzi Yousef flee to after detonating a truck bomb at the World Trade Center?

5. Where did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri establish his medical practice in Peshawar?

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