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

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

3. What does the Continuity of Government implement?
(a) Always having a secure line between the President and Vice President.
(b) Secure back-up of fiber optic cables and wires for communications.
(c) The evacuation of the first five in the line of government to a cave.
(d) The movement of departments to alternate sites.

4. What causes Aideed to go underground?
(a) AC-130 strikes.
(b) Excessive U.S. Marine helicopter presence.
(c) The people of Mogadishu rise up against him.
(d) The U.S. snipers.

5. What confounds the Counter-terrorism Security Group about the World Trade Center bombing?
(a) Why the WTC would be a target.
(b) The type of bomb utilized in the attack.
(c) The unknown names and unfamiliar terrorist group responsible.
(d) How the terrorist group got into the WTC.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistake does the U.S.S. Vincennes make?

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

3. Who does Iran get on their side to overthrow the Khalifas?

4. Among the following, who is NOT present at the Counter-terrorism Security Group meeting immediately after the 9/11 attacks?

5. What does Iran continue to do despite U.S. sanctions on them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Operation Staunch? How does it further influence the Iran-Iraq war?

2. How does Saddam try to assassinate George H.W. Bush? Describe the subsequent events that allow the U.S. to discover that Iraq is responsible for the attempt.

3. What is Reagan's reaction to Hezbollah and other attacks? How does this set up a certain way of thinking in the Middle East?

4. How is bin Laden affiliated with the World Trade Center bombing?

5. What is different about the terrorists involved with the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 than terrorists from previous attacks?

6. For the first time, on 9/11 Clarke is able to think as he walks from the Situation Room (SR) to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC). What are his thoughts at this time? How might this foreshadow information that may come later in the book?

7. Why does Clarke believe the fight against terrorism begins with Reagan's administration?

8. Give a briefing as Clarke does to Bush when they have a teleconference meeting for the first time after the attacks. What happened the morning of 9/11? What are the "Response Actions?"

9. What are Clarke's feelings about Iraq after the World Trade Center is attacked on September 11, 2001? What does he wish for, and why?

10. What is the dispute between the FBI and Clarke concerning Air Marshalls?

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