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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) May, 1971.
(b) September, 1977.
(c) June, 1976.
(d) October, 1973.

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

3. When was the State of Israel declared?
(a) September 14, 1946.
(b) May 14, 1948.
(c) July 12, 1944.
(d) June 12, 1950.

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

5. Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was a professor of pharmacology at what university in 1960?
(a) Al-Azhar University.
(b) Cairo University.
(c) Ain Shams University.
(d) Misr University.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sayyid Qutb travel to New York from Egypt on a cruise ship to study?

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

3. What was Oman Sharif's birth name?

4. Who was the vice president of Egypt that offered Ayman al-Zawahiri and his brother Mohammed a ride home from the mosque?

5. When did Mohammed al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri become the rector of al-Azhar?

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