Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Seymour Hersh
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Seymour Hersh
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ahmad present the Clinton Administration with an overthrow plan?

2. What was the chain of command like in the Iraqi prisons?

3. What work describes Hersh's views about U.S. foriegn policy after 9/11?

4. What was the code name for the U.S. Army offensive in western Afghanistan?

5. Who killed Abdul Haq, an Afghan leader supposedly working for the CIA?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hersh's attitude towards the troops?

2. As of 2004, what does the news not report about the Afghanistan situation?

3. What describes the country the Saudi royal family presides over?

4. Why did Rumsfeld think that using Special Forces was an advantage in the war?

5. What happened to cause elation in the military, during the first weeks of the Iraq war?

6. Who is Musharraf?

7. What was the positive spin the media put on the first day of operations in Operation Anaconda?

8. What happened to resources at the CIA, starting in the late eighties?

9. Why did Rumsfeld say that he needed more "fighting generals?"

10. What was Perle seen as having the ability to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Rumsfeld's role in the Iraq War? How was his role made harder, or easier, by the various attitudes within the Bush Administration? Cite specific examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How did a small group of individuals steer foreign policy towards Iraq in the Bush Administration? Who was in that small group of individuals? Cite specific examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Citing specific examples from the book, explain why Afghanistan is not considered a success story in this book?

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