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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the CSG not take extra measures to snatch Khalid Sheik Muhammad?
(a) They believe Muhammad is a bumbling fool and thinks it will be easy.
(b) Division within CSG takes over the goal of the snatch.
(c) They do not realize he is the mastermind behind WTC until after 9/11.
(d) Qatar's government gives them no choice.

2. When George W. Bush becomes President, what is the early focus in 2001?
(a) Counter-terrorism at all costs.
(b) China and an antimissile defense system.
(c) Opening pipelines in Alaska.
(d) Russia.

3. What does the Millennium After Action review mostly focus on?
(a) A small break from terrorism now that the holidays are over.
(b) New threats in the next millenium.
(c) Their success in stopping attacks during New Year's Eve into 2000.
(d) There are al Qaeda sleeper cells in the U.S.

4. What prohibits the FBI from being able to do much research into al Qaeda cells?
(a) Laziness.
(b) Pavitt's belief that al Qaeda is not important.
(c) Lack of internet.
(d) Attorney General Guidelines.

5. Under the Bush administration, who chairs the NSC Principals meeting?
(a) Cheney.
(b) Clarke.
(c) Rice.
(d) Ashcroft.

6. How does the U.S. plan to pass Pakistan airspace without issues?
(a) Secretary of State will issue warning to Pakistan just minutes before it occurs.
(b) Ralston will have dinner with the Pakistani general.
(c) Gore will personally call up the Pakistani general and ask him.
(d) The U.S. will use a stealth bomber to avoid radar detection.

7. Clarke models his work with Will Wechsler after seeing success against what other crime group?
(a) The Cali drug cartel.
(b) Hezbollah.
(c) The Chicago mob scene.
(d) The Medellin drug cartel.

8. Of the following, which is NOT a lesson learned in Charlie Allen's assembly of intelligence agencies?
(a) It is impossible to prove al Qaeda does not have weapons of mass destruction.
(b) The agencies never got together to consider al Qaeda's weapons before.
(c) There are less possiblities of weapons locations than they realized.
(d) It is easier to hide weapons of mass destruction than find them.

9. What motivates bin Laden to leave Sudan?
(a) Egypt's threat of military buildup.
(b) Turabi becomes too controlling for bin Laden.
(c) Usama bin Laden believes Turabi has lost sight of the Caliphate.
(d) The CIA and FBI has infiltrated Khartoum.

10. What surprises Powell when he observes a meeting between CSG, NSC, State, Defense, CIA, FBI, and military?
(a) How smooth the meeting is run.
(b) How they lack in communication abilities.
(c) All agree that al Qaeda is a threat.
(d) How defensive each department is in their role.

11. By what year do the U.S. Departments all agree that bin Laden is the mastermind in global terrorism?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1995.

12. With Executive Order 13099, what does Clarke finally get to focus on?
(a) Chemical agents in Shifa.
(b) Prevention and not just response.
(c) Stopping terrorism financing.
(d) Bioterrorism.

13. Who throws a fit about discussion of al Qaeda at a committee meeting with CSG?
(a) Donald Rumsfeld.
(b) Dick Cheney.
(c) Paul Wolfowitz.
(d) Rich Armitage.

14. What does Clinton reputedly say, as written in "USA Today" in 2001?
(a) "I wish Bush great luck... Maybe he'll have a better chance at getting al Qaeda."
(b) "I tried to take bin Laden out... the last four years I was in office."
(c) "I fought terrorism to the best of my ability, but it is up to civilians to educate themselves."
(d) "We prevented many attacks that are unknown. This fight continues into the next presidency."

15. What does Clarke suggest will help weaken the Taliban?
(a) Using the Taliban's own bombing tactics on their known facilities.
(b) Strengthen U.S. friendship with Pakistan.
(c) Improve U.S. relations with developing countries.
(d) Helping the Northern Alliance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the CIA sure that Iraq has a chemical weapons program?

2. In regards to the chemical/biological weapons front, what does Colin Powell think about them for the First Gulf War?

3. What does bin Laden and Zawahiri do to gain Rahman's release?

4. Near the end of Clinton's administration, what is one of his main focuses?

5. What does the CIA find at the Shifa plant?

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