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Lawrence Wright
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's only son?
(a) Mohammed.
(b) Abdullah.
(c) Kamal.
(d) Hussein.

3. What prep school did Prince Turki attend?
(a) Christian Brothers Academy.
(b) The Delbarton School.
(c) The Lawrenceville School.
(d) St. Peter's Prep School.

4. When did Sayyid Qutb's father die?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1948.

5. What was the name of Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri's wife?
(a) Umayma.
(b) Fatima.
(c) Zuwaila.
(d) Ajwa.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did Jamal al-Fadl supposedly steal from bin Laden when he ran away from his employ?

2. Jamal al-Fadl told Dan Coleman and U.S. attorneys that al-Qaeda had been responsible for a bombing in Yemen in what year?

3. Who was the vice president of Egypt that offered Ayman al-Zawahiri and his brother Mohammed a ride home from the mosque?

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

5. When did the rule of Islamic clerics formally end following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Wahhabism?

2. What is the Muslim Brotherhood and when was it established?

3. How is Osama bin Laden's return home described in Chapter 7? When did he return?

4. Why did the members of the Muslim Brotherhood dislike Ayman al-Zawahiri at the Red Crescent hospital?

5. Who is Ayman al-Zawahiri? Where is he from?

6. What led to Ayman al-Zawahiri's arrest and imprisonment in Egypt in 1981?

7. How was communism perceived by Sayyid Qutb when he came to the U.S.? How did his perceptions of communism compare with the U.S. views on it?

8. What let to the Grand Mosque seizure? When did this occur?

9. What is sharia law?

10. What does the mujahideen refer to?

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