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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Zia lie?
(a) He is not an honest man.
(b) Lying is relative.
(c) Islam allows lying, especially to advance a jihad.
(d) He will do anything to get what he wants.

2. The war in Afghanistan falls under Avrakotos's department. What else falls under his department?
(a) The conflict between Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic.
(b) The conflict between Iran and Iraq.
(c) Jordan-Syria tensions.
(d) The Arab-Israeli conflict.

3. From where does Charlie Wilson take a team to Afghanistan?
(a) 20/20.
(b) Nightly News.
(c) Dateline NBC.
(d) 60 Minutes.

4. Why is Vickers fearful to suggest radical changes?
(a) He is not sure of his suggestions.
(b) He holds too low of a rank.
(c) He is not well-liked by Avrakotos.
(d) He is afraid to upset Avrakotos.

5. What is Wilson's new assistant not above doing?
(a) Smuggling contraband items.
(b) Traveling to speaking engagements around the world.
(c) Fighting the Afghans.
(d) Arguing with Congress.

6. Unlike Howard Hart, how does Avrakotos leave the division?
(a) With an official award.
(b) With satisfaction.
(c) With pride.
(d) Without an official award.

7. How does Wilson's assistant show that he has become very passionate about the cause?
(a) He attends a Muslim religious service.
(b) He converts to Islam.
(c) He reads the Koran.
(d) He learns Arabic.

8. What is significant about the honor Avrakotos gets from the agency's African-American employees?
(a) He is the first white man to receive it.
(b) He has never been rewarded before.
(c) He is the first man to receive it.
(d) He is the last white man to receive it.

9. Without a war to fight, what happens to Wilson?
(a) He looks for new wars to start.
(b) He retires.
(c) He quickly returns to drinking.
(d) He spends more time traveling.

10. What serves to boost morale?
(a) A report that the Americans had pulled out of Afghanistan.
(b) A report of one Afghan fighter shooting down three Russian helicopters.
(c) A report that the war in Afghanistan was waning.
(d) A report that the Russians had moved out of Afghanistan.

11. During Christmas of 1986, how does Wilson reward eighteen months of good behavior?
(a) With a party.
(b) With one night of drinking.
(c) With a dinner out.
(d) With a celebration.

12. A congressional aide to McCollum, Vaughn Forest, approaches Wilson with what?
(a) Ideas for the war.
(b) Ideas for ending the war.
(c) A truce between Russia and Afghanistan.
(d) A request from McCollum.

13. How does Avrakotos receive the ideas?
(a) With fear.
(b) With dismay.
(c) With annoyance.
(d) With excitement.

14. Why does Avrakotos take the move uncharacteristically quietly?
(a) He is ready to retire.
(b) He trusts Wilson to help him.
(c) his bride-to-be and son now work for the agency, and he fears retribution could extend to them.
(d) He has resigned to his fate.

15. What does Vaughn propose regarding the Air Force?
(a) They fly to pick up the leaders of Afghanistan and Russia.
(b) They fly supplies to Pakistan, with Zia's approval.
(c) They stop flying supplies for the war.
(d) They fly a large bomb over the Soviet Union and drop it to end the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long is Wilson sober?

2. For what does Wilson continue to push the CIA?

3. What does the enormous budget for Afghanistan gain Avrakotos?

4. How does Wilson gain a flight to a dinner in his honor?

5. Of what does Russian leader Gorbachev accuse Pakistan's President Zia?

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