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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What risky task does Gallucci have at the Agricultural Ministry?
(a) Distract the Republican Guards as others raid a nearby building.
(b) Negotiate with terrorists to bring an American hostage home.
(c) He must convince Hussein to let the U.N. in for inspections.
(d) Lead a surprise raid to obtain proof of a nuclear program.

2. What angers Usama bin Laden about Americans in Saudi Arabia?
(a) Usama bin Laden believes Saudi Arabia can fight the war alone.
(b) Usama bin Laden feels disgust for any superpower.
(c) It is against the Wahhabist branch of Islam.
(d) Usama bin Laden feels the Americans failed the Afghans.

3. Why does Mike Fenzel have difficulty hearing the crisis conference in the Situation Room?
(a) The PEOC has bad static in their teleconference monitors.
(b) Mrs. Cheney prefers to listen to CNN and Dick Cheney keeps hanging up the phone.
(c) Fenzel is holed in a cave that has no secure line.
(d) Dick Cheney will not allow him to.

4. Why is it important to have Arab nations as allies when the U.S. goes to war against Iraq?
(a) They are the next rising superpower.
(b) Otherwise, they will ally with Iraq against the U.S.
(c) It helps protect the U.S.'s image in the Muslim world.
(d) It helps keep Israel's good relationship.

5. Which country asks for the U.S.'s help against Saddam a week prior to Clarke's arrival to ask to use their bases?
(a) Yemen.
(b) United Arab Emirates.
(c) Qatar.
(d) Oman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What influences the U.S to stop their attack on Iraq?

2. Why is the Iranian Revolution important to the U.S.?

3. What development adds to the political turmoil in the Middle East?

4. According to Clarke, what countries must the U.S. be concerned about?

5. What is the U.N. Special Commission's (UNSCOM) job?

(see the answer key)

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