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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Egypt and Syria stun Israel with simultaneous attacks across the Suez Canal into the occupied Sinai and on the Golan Heights?
(a) June, 1976.
(b) October, 1973.
(c) September, 1977.
(d) May, 1971.

2. When did Dan Coleman join the FBI as a file clerk?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1959.

3. What is the name of the quiet middle-class suburb where Ayman al-Zawahiri grew up?
(a) El Shorouk.
(b) New Heliopolis.
(c) Maadi.
(d) Obour.

4. Where did Sayyid Qutb study English in Washington, D.C.?
(a) Samuel Smith College.
(b) Wilson Teachers College.
(c) George Washington College.
(d) Brown University.

5. What was Sayyid Qutb's mother's name?
(a) Ajwa.
(b) Zuwaila.
(c) Aabroo.
(d) Fatima.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the CIA station in Tysons Corner, Virginia?

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

3. Jamal al-Fadl told Dan Coleman and U.S. attorneys that al-Qaeda had been responsible for a bombing in Yemen in what year?

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

5. When did the rule of Islamic clerics formally end following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire?

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