The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Lawrence Wright
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money did Jamal al-Fadl supposedly steal from bin Laden when he ran away from his employ?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $200,000.
(c) $2 million.
(d) $100,000.

2. Where did Azza (Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's wife) set up housekeeping in Pakistan?
(a) Darmangi.
(b) Hayatabad.
(c) Pajagi.
(d) Mir Tayab Garhi.

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

4. What college did Prince Turki transfter to after flunking out of his original college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Georgetown.
(d) Rutgers.

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

6. Where did Osama bin Laden open a small downtown office in Khartoum?
(a) Deraz Street.
(b) Mek Nimr Street.
(c) Hussein Street.
(d) Fadl Street.

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

8. From where did Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife move to Maadi?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Heliopolis.
(c) Giza.
(d) Luxor.

9. How much older is Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri than Osama bin Laden?
(a) Ten years older.
(b) Five years older.
(c) Three years older.
(d) Seven years older.

10. Where did Jamal al-Fadl claim to have worked for bin Laden?
(a) Kandahar.
(b) Khartoum.
(c) Nairobi.
(d) El-Obeid.

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

12. Where did Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri leave a medical clinic to move to Peshawar in 1986?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Amman.
(c) Jeddah.
(d) Damascus.

13. How old was Sayyid Qutb when he came to the U.S. to study?
(a) 32.
(b) 52.
(c) 38.
(d) 42.

14. When did Ramzi Yousef detonate a truck bomb in the parking lot of the World Trade Center?
(a) June, 1994.
(b) June, 2001.
(c) September, 1995.
(d) February, 1993.

15. Who murdered King Faisal?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His nephew.
(c) His son.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ayman al-Zawahiri's father die?

2. When did the government of Sudan send Osama bin Laden a letter of invitation?

3. What is described in Chapter 6 as "the mirror image of Islam, reversing its fundamental principles but maintaining the semblanc of orthodoxy" (124)?

4. Who is described as the leader of the coup d'etat against the democratic government of Sudan in June of 1989?

5. When was the State of Israel declared?

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