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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. Who wrote the scholarly report Sexual Behavior in the Human Male?
2. What does the word "fitna" translate to in English (130)?
3. How many members were there in al-Qaeda when Coleman began investigating the group in 1996?
4. When was Sayyid Qutb Mahfouz Azzam's Arabic teacher?
5. What is described in Chapter 6 as "the mirror image of Islam, reversing its fundamental principles but maintaining the semblanc of orthodoxy" (124)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was Egyptian society impacted by the Six Day War? When did this occur?
2. Who is Dr. Fadl? Where is he from?
3. How does the author describe Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife in Chapter 2?
4. How did Osama bin Laden help the mujahideen?
5. When did the World Trade Center bombing occur and what was its impact?
6. Why did the members of the Muslim Brotherhood dislike Ayman al-Zawahiri at the Red Crescent hospital?
7. What caused the 1973 oil crisis?
8. When did Sayyid Qutb come to the U.S.? What were his impressions of this country?
9. What led to Ayman al-Zawahiri's arrest and imprisonment in Egypt in 1981?
10. How is Osama bin Laden's return home described in Chapter 7? When did he return?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the life, family, education, and career of Hassan al-Turabi. How did Hassan al-Turabi come to be an ideological leader in Sudan? What was his relationship like with Osama bin Laden? How did that relationship evolve?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the Afghan Civil War. What were the different mujahideen armies that fought in this war? Who had the most support? Who won the war? How did this impact the country?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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