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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. What was Sayyid Qutb's mother's name?

2. What is the name of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's only son?

3. Where did Hasan al-Turabi earn his master's degree in law?

4. In prep school, Prince Turki had the nicknames Turk and what?

5. From where did Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife move to Maadi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Osama bin Laden feel about the United States' presence in Saudi Arabia after the Soviet-Afghan War?

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

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

6. What is sharia law?

7. What was Takfir wa Hijira?

8. Why did the members of the Muslim Brotherhood dislike Ayman al-Zawahiri at the Red Crescent hospital?

9. When did the World Trade Center bombing occur and what was its impact?

10. Why did Osama bin Laden consider the United States to be a threat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the life, career, education, and influences of Sayyid Qutb. When did Qutb come to the United States? What were his perceptions of the country? How did Sayyid Qutb become involved with radical Islam? What influences did he have on later terrorists?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the history of Saudi Arabia from the 1950s to the present. What impacts did the discovery of oil have on the Saudi Arabian economy, culture, and society? How did this transition feed radical thought, like that of Osama bin Laden and others?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of differences between Islam and Western values in The Looming Tower. How did many of the terrorists described in this book perceive the United States and the remainder of the West? What caused these perceptions? How were these differences to be dealt with?

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