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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the Egyptian filmmaker that arrived at the Lion's Den in February of 1988?
(a) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
(b) Essam Deraz.
(c) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(d) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.

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

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

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

6. What is the name of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's first child?
(a) Aabroo.
(b) Umaya.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Ajwa.

7. Who was the Time magazine senior editor that was being questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee when Sayyid Qutb arrived in the U.S.?
(a) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(b) Alfred Kinsey.
(c) Whittaker Chambers.
(d) Kenneth Karas.

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

9. In November of 1996, Dan Coleman traveled to an American military base in Germany with two U.S. attorneys. Who were the attorneys?
(a) James Anderson and Bob Johnson.
(b) Alfred Kinsey and Roger Wilson.
(c) Kenneth Karas and Patrick Fitzgerald.
(d) Yazid Sufaat and Whittaker Chambers.

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

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

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

13. What is the name of the CIA station in Tysons Corner, Virginia?
(a) Alec Station.
(b) Bentley Station.
(c) Kyle Station.
(d) Broadway Station.

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

15. Who did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri believe to be "the single great competitor for bin Laden's attention" (130)?
(a) Essam Deraz.
(b) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(c) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
(d) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri leave a medical clinic to move to Peshawar in 1986?

2. What position was Prince Saud given by his father for the kingdom?

3. When did Prince Turki begin attending prep school in New Jersey?

4. What prep school did Prince Turki attend?

5. When did the Six Day War take place?

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