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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who killed Ahmed Shah Massoud?
(a) The Taliban.
(b) Saddam Hussein.
(c) Al-Qaeda operatives.
(d) U.S. Marines.
2. What happened to United Airlines Flight 93?
(a) Crashed into the North Tower.
(b) Crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
(c) Crashed into the South Tower.
(d) Crashed into the Pentagon.
3. What was the "Predator"?
(a) A U.S. missile used to attack Afghanistan.
(b) A U.S. Air Force Jet used to attack Afghanistan.
(c) A U.S. satellite.
(d) An unmanned drone with video surveillance capabilities.
4. Who was the prominent preacher who stressed the importance of waging violent jihad and even personally pressed some members of the Hamburg groups to fulfill their duty to jihad by fighting in Afghanistan?
(a) Gamal Abdel Nasser.
(b) Mohammed Haydar Zammar.
(c) Hamid Karzai.
(d) Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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 INS.
(b) The FAA.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The FBI.
6. When did Bin Laden first warn of potential attacks against the U.S.?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1992.
7. When was President Bush informed of the 9/11 attacks?
(a) After United Airlines Flight 93 crashed.
(b) After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed.
(c) Before American Airlines Flight 11 crashed.
(d) After American Airlines Flight 77 crashed.
8. Where were the World Trade Center parking garage bombing and subsequent "landmarks" plot developed?
(a) America.
(b) Khaldan.
(c) Kuwait.
(d) Asia.
9. How was the August 7, 1998, attack on American embassies at Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam destroyed?
(a) By WMD's.
(b) By gunmen.
(c) By truck bombs.
(d) By hijacked aircraft.
10. What was the "Hamburg Group"?
(a) The 4 jihadist from Russia.
(b) The 4 jihadist from Germany.
(c) The 4 jihadist from Turkey.
(d) The 4 jihadist from Yemen.
11. Between 1996 and September 11, 2001, Afghanistan became a kind of international headquarters of __________.
(a) Logistics.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Terrorism.
(d) Warfare.
12. How many planes where hijacked on 9/11/2001?
(a) 7.
(b) 11.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.
13. In Bin Laden's view, who is Islam's principal enemy?
(a) Canada.
(b) Germany.
(c) America.
(d) Egypt.
14. The outcome of the November 7, 2000, presidential election was not decided for how many days?
(a) 37.
(b) 29.
(c) 60.
(d) 31.
15. What is CAPPS?
(a) No fly list.
(b) Passenger pre-screening system.
(c) A law enforcement agency of the FBI.
(d) A law passed to collect intelligence from foreign countries.
Short Answer Questions
1. Majority of the hijackers of 9/11 where from ________ , ________ - class backgrounds.
2. When Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan from Sudan in May 1996, he was greeted by a reactivation of which U.S. agencies intelligence networks?
3. From the end of WWII until the late 1960s, the FBI operated, in part, as a kind of ________ ________ service.
4. In what country did Bin Laden and Zawahiri published a Fatwa in an Arabic newspaper?
5. As of 1993, the public and Congress seemed convinced that treating terrorism that occurred on U.S. soil was a ________ ________ problem.
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