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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the rule of Islamic clerics formally end following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1929.

2. How did Gamal Abdel Nasser die?
(a) Execution.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Heart attack.

3. When didi Crown Prince Faisal formally abolish slavery?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1959.

4. Who was Prince Turki's uncle that offered him a job in the Foreign Liaison Bureau?
(a) Iffat Al-Thunayan.
(b) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
(c) Hussein al-Shaffei.
(d) Sheikh Kamal Adham.

5. How many members were there in al-Qaeda when Coleman began investigating the group in 1996?
(a) 16.
(b) 120.
(c) 235.
(d) 93.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did King Faisal give to Prince Turki as his sons helped him consolidate his power?

2. Who had signed an order for Sayyid Qutb's arrest, leading him to travel to the U.S. as a student?

3. When did Egypt and Syria stun Israel with simultaneous attacks across the Suez Canal into the occupied Sinai and on the Golan Heights?

4. J. Edgar Hoover claimed that one out of how many people in America were communists?

5. Where did Ayman al-Zawahiri likely meet Osama bin Laden for the first time, according to the author in Chapter 3?

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