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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the U.S.S. Cole bombed?

2. Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) earned a college degree in what subject?

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

4. When did a truck bomb explode in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the TTIC? When was it created, where is it based, who makes up the TTIC, and who do they report to?

2. What were the four (4) kinds of failure exposed by the 9/11 attacks?

3. What three factors worked against successful communication among FDNY personnel?

4. Describe the National Intelligence estimate that was distributed in July 1995. What did it warn against?

5. Describe the bombing attempt on the USS The Sullivans in January 2000.

6. Who is Lieutenant General William Boykin and what did he tell the Commission in regards to why opportunities were missed to kill Bin Laden?

7. What is the Proliferation Security Initiative? Who announced the PSI?

8. When did the U.S. government become aware of Bin Laden's involvement in financing terrorist attacks against the U.S interests? What did the State Department detect in his financing?

9. What was the "Hamburg Group" instructed by Bin Laden to do? What did the "Hamburg Group" end up doing instead? Why did the "Hamburg Group" not do what Bin Laden instructed them to do?

10. Describe the Minneapolis FBI investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui. Was the FBI able to connect Moussaoui to al-Qaeda?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe in detail the arrest of Ahmed Ressam in the late 1999. What information was learned through his arrest? Was this information valuable to understanding the 9/11 attacks?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the creation of the CIA. How did the Watergate and Pike and Church Committee investigations have a profound effect on the CIA's culture?

Essay Topic 3

How can the U.S use the resources and the people it has readily available to achieve unity within the government and their agencies?

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