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

2. Where is Stephen Gaudin from?
(a) Boston.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Seattle.
(d) New York.

3. Who was Abu al-Faraj's son who was sodomized and blackmailed?
(a) Mus'ab.
(b) Ahmed.
(c) Essam.
(d) Ajwa.

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

5. How many days did raw recruits of al-Qaeda spend in boot camp?
(a) 45.
(b) 15.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many American soldiers were killed in the explosion of the Khobar Towers in 1996?

2. Who was the Sudanese vice president that met with Timothy Carney on the last night before the Americans withdrew from Sudan?

3. What did Mohammed Atta study at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg?

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

5. Where had John and Mike Anticev's parents immigrated to the U.S. from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the majority of the new recruits for al-Qaeda in the 1990s in Chapter 18?

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

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

4. What plan did Mike Scheuer come up with to kidnap Osama bin Laden?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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