The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the center of opium cultivation that the Taliban consolidated control over in Afghanistan?
(a) Badakhshan Province.
(b) Helmand Province.
(c) Takhar Province.
(d) Jowzjan Province.

2. John Miller, when interviewing Osama bin Laden in 1998, said that bin Laden was like the Middle East version of whom?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Ahmed Badeeb.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Malcolm X.

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

4. Where was Ahmed Ressam originally from?
(a) Syria.
(b) Algeria.
(c) Croatia.
(d) Egypt.

5. From what countries did the Afghani Taliban receive material support (money and arms)?
(a) Afghanistan and Sudan.
(b) Sudan and Somalia.
(c) Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
(d) Somalia and Pakistan.

6. For what news station did John Miller work when he interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1998?
(a) BBC News.
(b) PBS News.
(c) CBS News.
(d) ABC News.

7. How old was Osama bin Laden when he was forced to leave Sudan?
(a) 38.
(b) 42.
(c) 35.
(d) 34.

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

9. What was the code name of the program created by Zawahiri to explore the use of unconventional techniques for mass murder?
(a) Deraz.
(b) Taha.
(c) Shaffei.
(d) Zabadi.

10. Where had John and Mike Anticev's parents immigrated to the U.S. from?
(a) Syria.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) Croatia.
(d) Bosnia.

11. What is the name of April Brightsky Ray's mother?
(a) Pat Johnson.
(b) Marion Brown.
(c) Julie Roberts.
(d) Miranda Williams.

12. Who was the U.S. Attorney General that John O'Neill spoke with regarding the potential capture of bin Laden?
(a) Alfred Kinsey.
(b) Whittaker Chambers.
(c) Janet Reno.
(d) Kenneth Karas.

13. What did Dan Coleman's FBI colleagues call him behind his back?
(a) "Wile E. Coyote."
(b) "Grumpy Santa."
(c) "Spaz."
(d) "Roadrunner."

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

15. Where was Jamal al-Fadl from?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) Somalia.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Khaled Saleem bin Rasheed claim to be from when he was questioned by the FBI?

2. What was contained in the Ufundi Building when the Kenyan Embassy was bombed in 1998?

3. Who took over temporarily as the head of the FBI during the director's vacation in 1998?

4. Where had Wali Khan Amin Shah been arrested when John Miller interviewed Osama bin Laden?

5. Who was Mohammed Sharraf's son that was sodomized and blackmailed by Egyptian intelligence?

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