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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. What did Osama bin Laden call the former Soviet collective farm where he moved his family in 1996?
(a) Najm al-Jihad.
(b) Abu Ubaydah.
(c) Ahmed Badeeb.
(d) Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

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

3. How old was Hosni Mubarak in 1995?
(a) 67.
(b) 74.
(c) 49.
(d) 62.

4. Where did the bomb-maker Saleh oversee the construction of two huge explosive devices in August of 1998?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Somalia.
(d) Sudan.

5. What was the code name for the bombing operation in Dar es Salaam?
(a) Operation al-Jihad.
(b) Operation al-Aqsa.
(c) Operation al-Adham.
(d) Operation al-Azzam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mohammed Atta grow up?

2. Who was the U.S. Attorney General that John O'Neill spoke with regarding the potential capture of bin Laden?

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

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

5. What was the GIA's weekly newspaper called?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How is the discord between the FBI and the CIA described in Chapter 14?

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

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

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