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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Sayyid Qutb study English in Washington, D.C.?
(a) George Washington College.
(b) Wilson Teachers College.
(c) Brown University.
(d) Samuel Smith College.

3. Where did Osama bin Laden open a small downtown office in Khartoum?
(a) Deraz Street.
(b) Fadl Street.
(c) Mek Nimr Street.
(d) Hussein Street.

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

5. What is described in Chapter 6 as "the mirror image of Islam, reversing its fundamental principles but maintaining the semblanc of orthodoxy" (124)?
(a) "Jihad."
(b) "Al-Qaeda."
(c) "Tafkir."
(d) "The Taliban."

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

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

8. What name was Abu Ubaydah al-Banshiri born with?
(a) Essam Deraz.
(b) Amin Ali al-Rashidi.
(c) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
(d) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.

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

10. About how many armed Afrghan militias were there in the mid-1980s?
(a) 250.
(b) 300.
(c) 150.
(d) 170.

11. Who murdered King Faisal?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His brother.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His son.

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

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

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

15. When did Ramzi Yousef detonate a truck bomb in the parking lot of the World Trade Center?
(a) September, 1995.
(b) June, 1994.
(c) June, 2001.
(d) February, 1993.

Short Answer Questions

1. When didi Crown Prince Faisal formally abolish slavery?

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

3. 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.?

4. What was Oman Sharif's birth name?

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

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