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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Deutch quit as CIA director after merely 19 months, the president attempted to nominate which individual?
(a) Tom Pickering.
(b) William Milam.
(c) Tom Simons.
(d) Tony Lake.

2. Yosef and his associates also had plans to hijack a plane and crash it where?
(a) U.N. headquarters.
(b) Pentagon.
(c) CIA headquarters.
(d) White House.

3. Egyptian Sheikh Rahman suffered from what physical disability?
(a) Mute.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Blindness.

4. In 1996, the CIA was attempting to recover Stinger missiles but encountered what problem with the Taliban?
(a) They demanded too high a price.
(b) They would sell back only damaged ones.
(c) They claimed they had none.
(d) They would not sell back the ones they had.

5. How many casualties resulted in these two U.S. embassy attacks in Africa?
(a) Over 100 killed, over 450 injured.
(b) Over 300 killed, over 1,500 injured.
(c) Over 150 killed, over 600 injured.
(d) Over 200 killed, over 4,000 injured.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Taliban form?

2. The ISI began to supply the Taliban in 1995, which soon controlled what region?

3. When did the Islamic opposition revolt against the established communist Russian government in Herat, Afghanistan?

4. There were how many direct contacts between a CIA officer and bin Laden in the 1980s?

5. By September 1994, which two nations stopped funding activities in Afghanistan?

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