Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden,… Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Prologue, Chapters 1-2

1. Gary Schroen, a CIA agent, met with Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was what?

2. The CIA fed what to Massoud's organization during the war with the Soviet Union?

3. In what year did the Taliban form?

4. What was the Taliban trying to clear Afghanistan of?

5. By 1996, Massoud's popularity stood where?

6. Schroen said the U.S., which left Afghanistan when the Soviet Union dissolved, would return for what reason?

7. When did riots in Islamabad and an attack on the U.S. embassy take place?

8. The U.S. embassy attack was coordinated by a radical group at which university?

9. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was...
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