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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. 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.?
(a) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(b) Whittaker Chambers.
(c) Alfred Kinsey.
(d) Kenneth Karas.

2. Who is the Egyptian filmmaker that arrived at the Lion's Den in February of 1988?
(a) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(b) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(c) Essam Deraz.
(d) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.

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

4. How did Gamal Abdel Nasser die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Stroke.
(d) Execution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Egypt and Syria stun Israel with simultaneous attacks across the Suez Canal into the occupied Sinai and on the Golan Heights?

2. Where did Prince Turki pay a visit one month after the Soviet invasion?

3. When did Ramzi Yousef detonate a truck bomb in the parking lot of the World Trade Center?

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

5. From where did Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife move to Maadi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is sharia law?

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

3. What does the mujahideen refer to?

4. How did typical Saudi life change after the first oil boom?

5. How did Osama bin Laden help the mujahideen?

6. Where was Prince Turki educated?

7. Who was Hassan al-Turabi?

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

9. What caused the 1973 oil crisis?

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

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