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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri leave a medical clinic to move to Peshawar in 1986?

2. What was Mohammed Atef's jihadi name?

3. Where did Prince Turki attend college for one semester before flunking out?

4. Who headed the emigre party Ittihad-e-Islami in 1988?

5. Where did Azza (Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's wife) set up housekeeping in Pakistan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is sharia law?

2. How is Osama bin Laden's return home described in Chapter 7? When did he return?

3. Who was Hassan al-Turabi?

4. Who is Ali Abdul Saoud Mohammed?

5. Who was Osama bin Laden? Where was he born and when did he form al-Qaeda?

6. Who is Ayman al-Zawahiri? Where is he from?

7. How did typical Saudi life change after the first oil boom?

8. What does the author describe Dan Coleman discovering in 1996 in the Prologue?

9. What led to Ayman al-Zawahiri's arrest and imprisonment in Egypt in 1981?

10. How does the author describe Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of bureaucratic competition in The Looming Tower. How did the competition between the U.S.'s different intelligence agencies lead to downfalls and failures of the system? In what ways were the competitions between the different agencies attributable to human loss?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the Soviet-Afghan War. When did this war take place? How many casualties came about from the war? Where was the war fought? How was it fought?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the September 11 attacks in 2001. How many people were killed and injured from the attacks? How did the attacks change global politics? How did the attacks influence U.S. law and regulations? What efforts could have been made to prevent the attacks?

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