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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. What was the unemployment rate in the U.S. when Sayyid Qutb came to be a student?
(a) Over 15%.
(b) Less than 4%.
(c) Less than 2%.
(d) Over 12%.

2. In what year did Crown Prince Faisal introduce female education in Saudi Arabia?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1960.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Osama bin Laden's construction company in Sudan?

2. What does the word "fitna" translate to in English (130)?

3. In November of 1996, Dan Coleman traveled to an American military base in Germany with two U.S. attorneys. Who were the attorneys?

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

5. Where did Sayyid Qutb study English in Washington, D.C.?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How does the author describe Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife in Chapter 2?

4. What does the author describe Dan Coleman discovering in 1996 in the Prologue?

5. Where was Prince Turki educated?

6. How did Mohammed bin Awahd bin Laden earn his fortune?

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

8. Why did Osama bin Laden consider the United States to be a threat?

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

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

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