Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden,… Test | Final Test - Hard

Steve Coll
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden,… Test | Final Test - Hard

Steve Coll
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 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. Terrorists met at the Zawhar Kili camp that the U.S. attacked with Tomahawk missiles resulting in what to bin Laden?

2. Massoud had gained strength in new arms deals and felt that the Taliban had weakened as he rebuilt what?

3. According to Chapter 26, Kahlid al Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi met in which capital?

4. Who met Mahmoud Ahmed in the spring of 2001 and advised Pakistan could do much more in the fight with bin Laden?

5. Madeleine Albright and who else declared publicly multiple times the U.S. would align with no side in Afghan's war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was George J. Tenet in various ways an unlikely candidate capable of repairing the breach between the CIA and Clinton?

2. How was bin Laden described as having viewed himself in Chapter 21?

3. Why were Clarke and his counter-terrorism group at the White House frustrated by late spring in 2000?

4. What was part of the problem when Bush came into office in 2001?

5. What were some of the calculations the CIA's Counterterrorism Center had made regarding al Qaeda by late 1999?

6. What was the view of CIA staff members regarding Cofer Black's enthusiastic view for armed Predator drones?

7. How had persistent Feminist Majority lobbying in opposition to the Taliban influenced the two most significant women in Clinton's administration?

8. How had the U.S. intelligence arms switched their focus by 1998?

9. Why was it the CIA's working idea to attempt to keep bin Laden outside "KKJ"?

10. How did the "bin Laden Issue Station" evolve?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the methods and means employed by this CIA to disrupt, capture, and kill Osama bin Laden subsequent to his return to Afghanistan in the late 1990s?

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

Why did the Saudis view Abdurrab Rasul Sayyaf as the most important rebel during the war with the Soviets?

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