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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the bomb-maker Saleh oversee the construction of two huge explosive devices in August of 1998?
(a) Somalia.
(b) Sudan.
(c) Kenya.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

2. Where is Stephen Gaudin from?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Boston.

3. When did several Somali tribesmen drag the bodies of two American helicopter pilots through Mogadishu?
(a) May, 1995.
(b) October, 1993.
(c) July, 1994.
(d) June, 1992.

4. What did the uranium that Osama bin Laden bought from Jamal al-Fadl turn out to be?
(a) Red murcury.
(b) Uranium.
(c) Nitrogen.
(d) Chromium.

5. Who nominated the World Trade Center as a target for an al-Qaeda attack?
(a) Yazid Sufaat.
(b) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(c) Ali Othman Taha.
(d) Khaled Sheikh Mohammed.

6. How many days did raw recruits of al-Qaeda spend in boot camp?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 45.

7. When did Mullah Mohammed Omar lose his eye in an artillery shell explosion?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1991.

8. Who set up a laboratory near Jalalabad to experiment on dogs with homemade nerve gas?
(a) Yazid Sufaat.
(b) Mohammed al-Zawahiri.
(c) Abu Khabab.
(d) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.

9. How much money did Osama bin Laden pay Jamal al-Fadl for uranium in 1993?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $300,000.
(c) $1 million.
(d) $2 million.

10. What is the name of the mosque where Osama bin Laden normally went to pray on Fridays that was across the Nile from Khartoum in the suburbs of Omdurman?
(a) The Sheikh Abdullah Azzam Mosque.
(b) The Ansar al-Sunnah Mosque.
(c) The Hussein al-Shaffei Mosque.
(d) The Abdul Rasul Sayyaf Mosque.

11. Who had created the al-Jihad cell in Tirana, Albania that the CIA moved against in 1998?
(a) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(b) Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
(c) Mohammed al-Zawahiri.
(d) Essam Deraz.

12. Who was the Malaysian businessman who spent months attempting to cultivate biological weapons in a lab near Kandahar for al-Qaeda?
(a) Abu Khabab.
(b) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(c) Mohammed al-Zawahiri.
(d) Yazid Sufaat.

13. What was the GIA's weekly newspaper called?
(a) Narodnaya Volya.
(b) Al-Ansar.
(c) Peshawar Power.
(d) Qatari News.

14. Who was the al-Qaeda defector that Dan Coleman interrogated a couple of months before John O'Neill arrived in New York?
(a) Essam Deraz.
(b) Jamal al-Fadl.
(c) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(d) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.

15. Where did the national coordinator for counterterrorism in the White House discover that Ramzi Yousef had been spotted in February of 1995?
(a) Islamabad.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Peshawar.
(d) Cairo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Mohammed Atta's friend that referred to Hitler as "a good man" (306)?

2. What was the name of the charity organization that Wadih el-Hage headed in 1997?

3. How much money did the Sudanese government owe Osama bin Laden for the 450-mile highway from Khartoum to Port Sudan when they kicked him out of the country?

4. Who was the Islamic scholar that Prince Turki took with him to meet Mullah Omar in 1998?

5. When did Nawaf al-Hazmi come to Afghanistan at 17 years of age?

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