9/11 Quiz

How many commercial jets were hijacked on September 11, 2001?

• 1

• 2

• 4

• 6

After 9/11, George W. Bush's popularity skyrocketed. This is known as the Rally 'Round the ____ (four-letter word) effect.

What was the name of the terrorist organization that took responsibility for the 9/11 attacks?

• The Taliban

• The Mujahideen

• Al Qaeda 

• ISIS

Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, was born into a rich family in Iraq.

• True

• False

In the 1970s, the U.S. government supported the Mujahideen. The Mujahideen were a group of guerillas that Osama bin Laden was fighting with in _____. The U.S. supported the  Mujahideen because they were fighting the Soviet Union, and the U.S. opposed the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

• Iraq

• Saudi Arabia

• Afghanistan

• Iraq

Which of the following elements of U.S. policy did Bin Laden not cite as motivation for the 9/11 attacks?

• U.S. military presence in Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia (home of key Muslim holy sites)

• U.S. support for Israel

• U.S. sanctions against Iraq

• U.S. opposition to the Soviet Union

_____ bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

• Al Qaeda

• ISIS

• Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols

• OJ Simpson

Terrorist attacks against the U.S. were becoming more common in the decade prior to 9/11/01.

• True

• False

Following 9/11, the Bush administration advocated for the U.S. to invade _____, because some of the 9/11 attackers trained on Al Qaeda bases in that country.

• Iraq

• Iran

• Afghanistan

• Saudi Arabia

At the time of the U.S. invasion, Afghanistan was controlled by _____, which had formed out of the Mujahideen.

• the Taliban 

• the Northern Alliance

• Al Qaeda 

• ISIS