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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) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Ahmed Badeeb.

2. What building in Los Angeles was discussed as a potential American target for al-Qaeda?
(a) The Empire Tower.
(b) The Hollywood Tower.
(c) The Sears Tower.
(d) The Library Tower.

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

4. Who was Mohammed Atta's friend that referred to Hitler as "a good man" (306)?
(a) Munir al-Motassadeq.
(b) Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif.
(c) Mohammed al-Zawahiri.
(d) Yazid Sufaat.

5. Where were John and Mike Anticev from?
(a) Charlottesville.
(b) Little Rock.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Brooklyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jamal al-Fadl from?

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

3. When did several Somali tribesmen drag the bodies of two American helicopter pilots through Mogadishu?

4. How much money did the Sudanese government owe Osama bin Laden for the 450-mile highway from Khartoum to Port Sudan when they kicked him out of the country?

5. What is the name of April Brightsky Ray's mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What problems did the Saudis have with Osama bin Laden in May of 1998?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where had Mohammed Abdullah al-Khilaifi trained? How is he described by the author?

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