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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After homeland issues are assured in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, what is the Situation Room's next topic?
(a) What to do about al Qaeda.
(b) How to invade Iraq.
(c) How to get Pakistan's support.
(d) How they can link Saddam to this.

2. In addition to closing airways, what does Clarke want to safeguard?
(a) Historical landmarks in New York and D.C.
(b) Harbors and borders.
(c) Major highways to and from New York City.
(d) All federal buildings in all states are to close.

3. Who else wants to convict Omar Abdel Rahman for terrorism?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Lebanon.

4. What must Cheney and his team convince the Saudi King?
(a) To lead the alliance that protects Kuwait.
(b) To allow U.S. troops into his country's bases.
(c) To ally with Israel.
(d) To attack Iraq before Iraq attacks Kuwait.

5. What punishment does President George H.W. Bush seek on Libya for the Pan Am attack?
(a) Greater military presence in northern Africa.
(b) Military action on Libyan government buildings.
(c) He pulls relief aid.
(d) U.N. sanctions on Libya.

6. According to Clarke, what is one factor that stops counter-terrorism policies from passing in Congress?
(a) WTC bombing of 1993 was not a large enough wake-up call.
(b) The push for budget cuts.
(c) The lack of shared intelligence to the Congress.
(d) Republican-Democratic party animosity.

7. Where is President Bush at the time of the attacks?
(a) A pre-school in Florida.
(b) On vacation in Texas.
(c) At a Marine facility in Lousiana.
(d) A college basketball game at Yale.

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

9. What mistake does the U.S.S. Vincennes make?
(a) Shoots down an Iranian passenger plane.
(b) Does not communicate on the right line and misses instructions.
(c) Heads in the wrong direction and meets the Iraqi oil tankers.
(d) Sends bombs to the wrong coordinates.

10. What gets the Pentagon angry at the President's response to the Khobar attack?
(a) Clinton allows Saudi Arabia to head the investigation.
(b) Clinton wants the FBI to hold investigation information from the Pentagon.
(c) Clinton agrees to investigation of military laxness.
(d) Clinton does not want military retaliation.

11. How does Clarke begin making enemies with his own government?
(a) Becoming too close to Israelis.
(b) Publicly scrutinizing the idea that they are involved with the Middle East.
(c) Admonishing the Reagan administration for their strategies.
(d) Getting too close to Reagan and funneling money into his department.

12. El Sayyid Nosair's legal bills are paid by whom?
(a) Hezbollah.
(b) Usama bin Laden.
(c) Iran Revolutionary Guards.
(d) Hussein.

13. Why doesn't the federal government want to take over airport security?
(a) Budget costs.
(b) It takes away from private airline employment opportunities.
(c) They do not want to implement an entire new department.
(d) Lobbyists from private airport security firms and airlines.

14. What does Iraq do that convinces Charlie Allen that Iraq is serious about Kuwait?
(a) They operate under emcon.
(b) The U.S.has intelligence that Iraq is about to attack on two fronts.
(c) They send large numbers of forces to the border of Kuwait.
(d) The U.N. finds a nuclear program in Iraq.

15. Of those listed, which is NOT an option as a retaliation effort against Iran for the Khobar attack?
(a) Attack Iranian sponsored terrorist camps in Lebanon.
(b) Employ an intelligence operation.
(c) Convince allies to an economic boycott.
(d) Ally with Saudi Arabia for a small-scale attack.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is it important to have Arab nations as allies when the U.S. goes to war against Iraq?

3. The Russians almost prepare to exercise their strategic nuclear forces due to what concern?

4. Which country asks for the U.S.'s help against Saddam a week prior to Clarke's arrival to ask to use their bases?

5. What does the U.S. buy from Israel?

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