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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Powell recalls the saying of _____________: "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
(a) John F Kennedy
(b) Robert E. Lee
(c) Bill Clinton
(d) George H.W. Bush

3. Rumsfeld tangles with Powell about UN sanctions on ____________ items Powell knows the French and Russians want reconsidered.
(a) Combat
(b) Dual use
(c) Nuclear
(d) Engagement

4. The senators cannot frame an effective critique of Bush's request for a ______________.
(a) Covert assassination attempt
(b) Blank check
(c) Hearing
(d) War

5. A ____________ run after Bush's Axis of Evil speech determines signals intelligence on Iraq is negligible.
(a) Fire Drill
(b) Congressional
(c) CIA
(d) Rock Drill

Short Answer Questions

1. Bush argues that Iraq gathers the most serious dangers of our age into one place, evoking _____________ response to the Soviet missiles in Cuba.

2. Rumsfeld orders plans for the "Liberation of ____________" and postwar stability operations.

3. Michael Hayden still downplays the WMD in Iraq as _______________.

4. Rice likes Cheney's charge that the _____________ is becoming irrelevant and a mockery.

5. The name of the National Security Presidential Direction was Iraq: Goals, Objectives, and ______________."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hayden foresee about the conflict in Iraq that will cause strain to the NSA?

2. What does Rumsfeld suspect which leads him to suggest using this information as a way, an opportunity, to attack Iraq?

3. What does Michael Gerson feel about the upcoming speech that he is writing for Bush's State of the Union?

4. What does Armitage push Powell to do as Powell is on edge with the military planning becoming dominant?

5. What does Bush begin to demand that Iraq allows the United Nations to do within their country?

6. What does Bush reaffirm when he comes home on September 1?

7. What does Saul tell Cheney about Saddam which proves to be a sobering fact for the Vice President?

8. What is Cheney sure will happen if they demand Saddam submit full WMD accounting?

9. What is John Kerry's vote and reasoning behind his vote when Congress votes on whether to go to war?

10. What is the definition of targeting that Rumsfeld wants to talk about with others?

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