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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Saul asks for the job as no one else wants to head the "House of Broken _____."
(a) Promises
(b) Relationships
(c) Toys
(d) Oil

2. When Bush is in Texas, _________ chairs a line by line review of a draft National Security Presidential Directive.
(a) Donald Rumsfeld
(b) Richard Armitage
(c) Colin Powell
(d) Condoleeza Rice

3. There is consensus that ___________ will be needed to stabilize a post-Saddam Iraq, war or no war.
(a) US forces
(b) UN resolutions
(c) Worldwide involvement
(d) UN troops

4. Franks delivers the ____________ meaning that the full force would be generated in the region before fighting starts.
(a) Shock and Awe campaign
(b) Final Solution
(c) Generated Start Plan
(d) Terror Retaliation

5. Michael V. Hayden is Director of the _____________, heading a staff of 32,000 people.
(a) National Security Agency
(b) Cover Military Operations Group
(c) Central Intelligence Agency
(d) Federal Bureau of Investigation

6. The ____________ document states that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, but then telegraphs doubts in this assertion.
(a) Key Assumptions
(b) Major Concerns
(c) Contradictory Paths
(d) Key Judgments

7. Clinton officials brief the incoming Bush staff on enforcing ___________ zones in Iraq.
(a) No bombing
(b) Peace
(c) No fly
(d) Civilian

8. Success in Afghanistan increases CIA Director ______________ standing with President Bush.
(a) George Tenet's
(b) George Armitage's
(c) Colin Powell's
(d) Dick Cheney's

9. Bush on September 19 tells 11 congressmen that al Qaeda is being hunted down successfully, so Saddam and his ________ are the biggest threat.
(a) Sons
(b) WMDs
(c) Soliders
(d) Plans

10. Franks briefs the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose turf wars in ___________ he has criticized.
(a) Iran
(b) Afghanistan
(c) Iraq
(d) North Korea

11. The ___________ never declares categorically to the media that Saddam has WMD.
(a) JCS
(b) NSC
(c) NSA
(d) CIA

12. Briefing Bush and the NSC, Franks implies recent assertions about ____________ are overblown.
(a) WMD
(b) Saddam
(c) 9/11
(d) Bin Laden

13. Rice likes Cheney's charge that the _____________ is becoming irrelevant and a mockery.
(a) United Nations
(b) Troops
(c) Congress
(d) Protestors

14. Michael Hayden still downplays the WMD in Iraq as _______________.
(a) A worry, but not a big worrd
(b) Deferential
(c) Weak
(d) Inferential

15. ____________ is the strength of any military plan, says Powell, and advises Franks to keep the force as small as is practical.
(a) Power
(b) Intelligence
(c) Realism
(d) Surprise

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumsfeld suspects that __________ is in cahoots with Osama bin Laden.

2. Snowcroft, a private consultant, publishes in the Wall Stress Journal a piece stating ______________ is not connected to 9/11.

3. The CIA has identified three major threats to security at the time of Bush's beginnings in office. What is NOT one of these threats?

4. What is the code name for the operatives working for Tim during his time in Iraq?

5. Bush just wants an _____________, the end of Saddam and WMD, which he impresses upon Gerson for his speech.

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