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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 Mohammed Atta arrive in Hamburg?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1999.

2. Where did Jack Cloonan grow up?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) New Hope, Pennsylvania.
(c) Waltham, Massachusetts.
(d) Bingham, Maryland.

3. Whose adopted Korean son was Alec Station named after?
(a) Jamal al-Fadl.
(b) Michael Scheuer.
(c) Essam Deraz.
(d) John O'Connor.

4. Who was Mohammed Sharraf's son that was sodomized and blackmailed by Egyptian intelligence?
(a) Mus'ab.
(b) Essam.
(c) Ajwa.
(d) Ahmed.

5. What was President Clinton's response after two American helicopter pilots' bodies were dragged across Mogadishu?
(a) He ordered air raids over Mogadishu.
(b) He declared war on Syria.
(c) He declared war on Iran.
(d) He withdrew troops from Somalia.

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 many of the would-be assassins of Hosni Mubarak were killed in the assassination attempt in June of 1995?

3. Who wrote the autobiography titled Revolt?

4. Who was the national coordinator for counterterrorism in the White House in February, 1995?

5. Who was the Islamic scholar that Prince Turki took with him to meet Mullah Omar in 1998?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and why did the Khobar Towers bombing occur?

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

3. Why did the downing of two U.S. helicopters in October of 1993 become the turning point of the war in Somalia?

4. How had Afghanistan changed when Osama bin Laden returned there in 1996?

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

6. What did Osama bin Laden cite as his reasons for his declaration of war against the U.S. when he was interviewed by CNN in 1997?

7. How did the U.S. respond to the 1998 United States embassy bombings?

8. What led Sudan to expel Osama bin Laden from the country?

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

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

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