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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Counterterrorism Evolves".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the age of 23, Bin Laden was which type of fighter?
(a) Fire.
(b) Gorilla.
(c) American.
(d) Peace.

3. When was President Bush informed of the 9/11 attacks?
(a) Before American Airlines Flight 11 crashed.
(b) After United Airlines Flight 93 crashed.
(c) After American Airlines Flight 77 crashed.
(d) After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed.

4. In the late __________ NORAD carried out exercises for a scenario in which terrorists would hijack and use commercial airliners as weapons.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 2000s.
(d) 1970s.

5. How many planes where hijacked on 9/11/2001?
(a) 4.
(b) 11.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country did Bin Laden and Zawahiri published a Fatwa in an Arabic newspaper?

2. Who was nicknamed "Blind Sheikh"?

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

4. What does NORAD stand for?

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

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