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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. How frequently did Casey visit the Saudis and Pakistanis?

2. What did Massoud's group protect?

3. Not long after they formed, the Taliban captured what city?

4. When was there a meeting in Moscow in which the Soviets decided to pull out of Afghanistan within a year or two?

5. The success of the CIA depended on Hart's ability to work with Akhtar due Rahman in developing what list?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where were Schroen's assignments in the decade subsequent to the embassy riots in Islamabad in 1979?

2. What were the major concerns of the U.S. embassy at Kabul in early 1988?

3. How had the city of Peshawar evolved by late 1986?

4. What were some of the elements of Michael Pillsbury's goal in Afghanistan?

5. How did Robert Gates view Bill Clinton when he flew to meet the president-elect?

6. What joke quickly circulated about James Woolsey, the CIA director, being unable to get an appointment with Clinton?

7. How did Haq's relationship with the CIA begin?

8. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

9. How was Abdul Haq introduced?

10. Why did the CIA Islamabad station hold a cautious view of Massoud as related in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was noteworthy about the use of Predator reconnaissance drones?

Essay Topic 2

What was Cull referring to in Chapter 7 when he quoted Frank Anderson as having said, "The Reagan administration had attracted to Washington 'an awful lot of Soldier of Fortune readers'"?

Essay Topic 3

How has bin Laden's security consciousness hindered the CIA goal of capturing or killing him?

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