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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "From Threat to Threat".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1999, who imposed economic and travel restrictions on the Taliban?
(a) The U.N.
(b) The U.S.
(c) The FAA.
(d) The FBI.

2. How many members of the Hamburg group received a U.S. visa?
(a) 9.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

3. When did KSM originally meet with Bin Laden to present a vague plan to hijack planes and use them as guided missiles?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1996.
(d) 2000.

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) Egypt.
(b) Quwait.
(c) Russia.
(d) U.S.

5. In 1996, who was concerned enough about Bin Laden to set up a unit of about a dozen officers that would monitor him and plan operations against him?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The CIA.
(c) The FAA.
(d) The INS.

Short Answer Questions

1. After WWII, what was the chief agency involved in setting foreign policy and advising the President on foreign policy?

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

3. The counter-terrorism meeting between Richard Clarke and the Bush Administration did not take place until when?

4. Who ordered the National Security Council to coordinate a response against the terrorist who bombed the World Trade Center's parking garage?

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

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