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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. Where did the national coordinator for counterterrorism in the White House discover that Ramzi Yousef had been spotted in February of 1995?
(a) Peshawar.
(b) Islamabad.
(c) Nairobi.
(d) Cairo.

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

3. Who was the national coordinator for counterterrorism in the White House in February, 1995?
(a) Whittaker Chambers.
(b) Nathan Meeker.
(c) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(d) Richard A. Clarke.

4. What political Islamist party was expected to win in Algeria in 1992?
(a) The al-Wasat Party .
(b) The Al-Menbar Islamic Society.
(c) The Front Islamique du Salut.
(d) The National Forces Alliance.

5. What was the name of the operation that destroyed Hamburg in World War II?
(a) Operation Gomorrah.
(b) Operation Saul.
(c) Operation Takwhib.
(d) Operation Jihad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Malaysian businessman who spent months attempting to cultivate biological weapons in a lab near Kandahar for al-Qaeda?

2. How old was Hosni Mubarak in 1995?

3. Where were John and Mike Anticev from?

4. Where was Zacarias Moussaoui originally from?

5. What organization did Hosni Mubarak travel to Addis Ababa to meet with on June 26, 1995?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did al-Zawahiri end up at the same compound as bin Laden in 1997?

2. What were Osama bin Laden's finances like in 1994?

3. What was I-49? Why was it established?

4. How was Osama bin Laden impacted by his expulsion from Sudan?

5. How did Osama bin Laden justify terrorism when speaking to Pakistani reporters in 1998, according to the author in Chapter 16?

6. How is the process of al-Qaeda training described in Chapter 18?

7. What did the men who came to Soba Farm have in common, according to the author in Chapter 10?

8. What operation did bin Laden order Khaled Sheikh Mohammed to initiate in the spring of 1999?

9. What are listed as the utopian goals of al-Qaeda in Chapter 18?

10. What happened to the USS Cole? When did this event occur?

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