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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. John Miller, when interviewing Osama bin Laden in 1998, said that bin Laden was like the Middle East version of whom?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Ahmed Badeeb.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

2. Who was John O'Neill's new secretary when he as assigned to head the National Security Division in New York?
(a) Essam Deraz.
(b) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(c) Lorraine di Taranto.
(d) Nathan Meeker.

3. Who was the al-Qaeda defector that Dan Coleman interrogated a couple of months before John O'Neill arrived in New York?
(a) Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
(b) Jamal al-Fadl.
(c) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(d) Essam Deraz.

4. Where was the GIA's weekly newspaper published?
(a) London.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Paris.
(d) New York.

5. Who was Prince Turki's chief of staff in 1995-1996?
(a) Abu Ubaydah.
(b) Essam Deraz.
(c) Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
(d) Ahmed Badeeb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political Islamist party was expected to win in Algeria in 1992?

2. Who was Mohammed Sharraf's son that was sodomized and blackmailed by Egyptian intelligence?

3. Where did the bomb-maker Saleh oversee the construction of two huge explosive devices in August of 1998?

4. How long did the second phase of training for al-Qaeda last?

5. Who was the only FBI agent in New York that spoke Arabic in 1998?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Mus'ab's father and how did Egyptian intelligence officials gain information about him?

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

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

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

5. What did Egyptian intelligence officials do to Ahmed Sharraf?

6. Why did Mullah Omar move Osama bin Laden to Kandahar in 1997?

7. Where did the 1998 United States embassy bombings occur? Who engineered them?

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

9. How does Islamic law dictate child custody in the case of divorce?

10. Why did the assassination attempt on President Hosni Mubarak fail? When did it occur?

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