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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 Prince Turki attend college for one semester before flunking out?

2. When was Sayyid Qutb Mahfouz Azzam's Arabic teacher?

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

4. How many wives did Osama bin Laden have in 1992?

5. When did Ayman al-Zawahiri's father die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the author describe the concept of takfir?

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

4. What is the Muslim Brotherhood and when was it established?

5. Who was Hassan al-Turabi?

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

7. What was Takfir wa Hijira?

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

9. Where was Prince Turki educated?

10. How did Osama bin Laden help the mujahideen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the life and work of Prince Turki al-Faisal. Why was Prince Turki given a position in intelligence? What was his role? What was Prince Turki's relationship to Osama bin Laden? How did that relationship change?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe Osama bin Laden's family, childhood, and education. Where was he born? How many siblings did he have? What were his familial relationships like? How did these elements influence him?

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