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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 took over temporarily as the head of the FBI during the director's vacation in 1998?

2. Where did Khaled Saleem bin Rasheed claim to be from when he was questioned by the FBI?

3. Other than the suicide bombers, how many people died as a result of the Egyptian Embassy bombing in Islamabad?

4. What is the center of opium cultivation that the Taliban consolidated control over in Afghanistan?

5. For what news station did John Miller work when he interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1998?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did al-Zawahiri end up at the same compound as bin Laden in 1997?

3. What were Osama bin Laden's finances like in 1994?

4. Who was Mus'ab's father and how did Egyptian intelligence officials gain information about him?

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

6. How did the U.S. respond to the 1998 United States embassy bombings?

7. What problems did the Saudis have with Osama bin Laden in May of 1998?

8. What did Osama bin Laden cite as his reasons for his declaration of war against the U.S. when he was interviewed by CNN in 1997?

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

10. How does the author describe the majority of the new recruits for al-Qaeda in the 1990s in Chapter 18?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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