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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 was the U.S. Attorney General that John O'Neill spoke with regarding the potential capture of bin Laden?

2. Who was Abu al-Faraj's son who was sodomized and blackmailed?

3. Where did Jack Cloonan grow up?

4. Who was Osama bin Laden's friend an military chief in 1996?

5. Where was Ahmed Ressam originally from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the downing of two U.S. helicopters in October of 1993 become the turning point of the war in Somalia?

3. What operation did bin Laden order Khaled Sheikh Mohammed to initiate in the spring of 1999?

4. How is the process of al-Qaeda training described in Chapter 18?

5. What are listed as the utopian goals of al-Qaeda in Chapter 18?

6. Why did Mullah Omar move Osama bin Laden to Kandahar in 1997?

7. When and why did the Khobar Towers bombing occur?

8. Why was John O'Neill suspected of a leak after bin Laden's ABC News interview in 1998?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the organization al-Jihad. When and where was this organization founded? What was its mission? Is it still active today? Who were/are its leaders?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of American overconfidence in The Looming Tower. How does the author establish this theme? How does he back up this theme with examples? What are the repercussions of American overconfidence?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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