Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Seymour Hersh
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Seymour Hersh
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What government was Perle highly critical of, claiming it was a major element of the terrorism problem?

2. The war on ________ happened after 9/11.

3. What position did Nizar Khazraji hold?

4. What did a CIA analyst say was being committed against the detainees in Cuba?

5. When were the court martial proceedings supposed to occur in the Abu Ghraib investigations?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the Bush Administration, in late 2001, in a dilemma over how to treat Iran?

2. Why did Pakistan supposedly share nuclear information with North Korea?

3. What happened to Moussaoui in prison?

4. As of 2004, what does the news not report about the Afghanistan situation?

5. What happened to Moussaoui's home computer?

6. What happened when the U.S. challenged North Korea, diplomatically, about stopping nuclear operations in October 2002?

7. What did Hersh write about for his first major story?

8. What were some other topics Hersh wrote about as an investigative reporter?

9. What had the U.S. succeeded in stabilizing more than a year after Rumsfeld's pronouncement of Afghanistan's successes?

10. What bad intelligence was given to President Bush and used in his State of the Union Address?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the role of the CIA in the Iraq war and the events leading up to it? What does this role mean about the power of the CIA? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book, explain how intelligence gathering and processing affected the decisions of the Bush Administration.

Essay Topic 3

Why was Abu Ghraib such a scandal? According to the author of the book, what caused it, what did the people in power do, and how could it have been presented?

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