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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 didi Crown Prince Faisal formally abolish slavery?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1965.

2. Who was the national security advisor for the Carter administration?
(a) Sheikh Kamal Adham.
(b) Zbigniew Brzezinski.
(c) Yazid Sufaat.
(d) Hussein al-Shaffei.

3. Where did Hasan al-Turabi earn his master's degree in law?
(a) The University of California, Berkeley.
(b) The London School of Economics.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University School of Business.

4. What college did Prince Turki transfter to after flunking out of his original college?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Georgetown.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Crown Prince Faisal introduce female education in Saudi Arabia?

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

3. When was King Faisal murdered?

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

5. What prep school did Prince Turki attend?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the mujahideen refer to?

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

4. Where was Prince Turki educated?

5. What caused the 1973 oil crisis?

6. What was Takfir wa Hijira?

7. Who was Hassan al-Turabi?

8. What is Wahhabism?

9. What is sharia law?

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

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