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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. As of 1993, the public and Congress seemed convinced that treating terrorism that occurred on U.S. soil was a ________ ________ problem.
(a) U.S. Marines.
(b) Law Enforcement.
(c) U.S. Army.
(d) U.S. Navy.

2. Any order to shoot down a passenger aircraft had to come from the President or who?
(a) The Secretary of Defense.
(b) The U.S. Air Force.
(c) The Vice President.
(d) The U.S Army.

3. How was the August 7, 1998, attack on American embassies at Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam destroyed?
(a) By gunmen.
(b) By WMD's.
(c) By hijacked aircraft.
(d) By truck bombs.

4. By 1997, the CIA's Bin Laden unit knew that al-Qaeda was planning attacks against __________ interests and was actively seeking nuclear materials.
(a) Russia.
(b) Quwait.
(c) Egypt.
(d) U.S.

5. When did a truck bomb explode in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1993.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many planes where hijacked on 9/11/2001?

2. What "base" or "foundation" did Bin Laden establish to preserve his military structure for future jihads?

3. Who was said to have visibly winced when he was informed of the desire of the U.S. to capture Bin Laden alive?

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

5. Where did NORAD assumed that hijacked airline terrorist threats would originate?

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