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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 "Responses to al-Qaeda's Initial Assaults".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately ________ of all spending on intelligence is within the Defense Department.
(a) 75%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 80%.

2. By 1991, bin Laden had forged alliances with Muslim terrorist groups and succeeded in recruiting _________ Muslims for terrorist attacks against U.S. targets.
(a) African.
(b) Canadian.
(c) American.
(d) Korean.

3. Where did NORAD assumed that hijacked airline terrorist threats would originate?
(a) Inside Canada.
(b) Inside Mexico.
(c) Outside the United States.
(d) Inside the United States.

4. In 1999, new intelligence emerged that Bin Laden would spend a night at a specific location in which city of Afghanistan?
(a) Kabul.
(b) Kunduz.
(c) Jalalabad.
(d) Kandahar.

5. Fatwa is an interpretation of __________ law by a respected Islamic authority.
(a) Christian.
(b) Islamic.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Buddhism.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the end of WWII until the late 1960s, the FBI operated, in part, as a kind of ________ ________ service.

2. Where did the majority of the hijackers sit in the airplane?

3. How was the August 7, 1998, attack on American embassies at Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam destroyed?

4. Between 1996 and September 11, 2001, Afghanistan became a kind of international headquarters of __________.

5. What federal government was perhaps the least well-equipped branch of government to deal with terrorism?

(see the answer key)

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