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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 Zawahiri's men bomb the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan?
(a) June 15, 2014.
(b) March 26, 1998.
(c) November 19, 1995.
(d) August 12, 1994.

2. How many men did Osama bin Laden claim to have sent to Somalia to fight against U.S. troops?
(a) 150.
(b) 25.
(c) 250.
(d) 300.

3. What does "GIA" refer to in the text?
(a) Governmental Islamic Atlas.
(b) Governmental Islamic Alliance.
(c) Group Islamic Alliance.
(d) Groupe Islamique Arme.

4. How long did the second phase of training for al-Qaeda last?
(a) 15 days.
(b) 30 days.
(c) 60 days.
(d) 45 days.

5. Where had John and Mike Anticev's parents immigrated to the U.S. from?
(a) Bolivia.
(b) Croatia.
(c) Syria.
(d) Bosnia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the archbishop of New York in 1997?

2. Where did the national coordinator for counterterrorism in the White House discover that Ramzi Yousef had been spotted in February of 1995?

3. What did the uranium that Osama bin Laden bought from Jamal al-Fadl turn out to be?

4. Where had Wali Khan Amin Shah been arrested when John Miller interviewed Osama bin Laden?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who did bin Laden enlist to assassinate Ahmed Shah Massoud? Why did he have him assassinated?

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

4. Who became al-Qaeda's first traitor? How?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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