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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many wives did Osama bin Laden have in 1992?
(a) Two.
(b) Nine.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

4. When was Sayyid Qutb Mahfouz Azzam's Arabic teacher?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1969.

5. What was Osama bin Laden's agricultural company in Sudan called?
(a) Abu Hajer al-Iraqi.
(b) Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
(c) Al-Thimar al-Mubaraka.
(d) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Sayyid Qutb's mother's name?

2. When did Dan Coleman join the FBI as a file clerk?

3. Where did Prince Turki pay a visit one month after the Soviet invasion?

4. How many people were killed as a result of the truck bomb detonated by Ramzi Yousef?

5. Where did Azza (Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's wife) set up housekeeping in Pakistan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Cold War and when did it take place?

2. How does the author describe Dr. Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and his wife in Chapter 2?

3. When did the World Trade Center bombing occur and what was its impact?

4. How did Osama bin Laden feel about the United States' presence in Saudi Arabia after the Soviet-Afghan War?

5. What is Wahhabism?

6. Where was Prince Turki educated?

7. What does the mujahideen refer to?

8. What does the author describe Dan Coleman discovering in 1996 in the Prologue?

9. What is sharia law?

10. How did Osama bin Laden feel about his time in Sudan?

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