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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. What military organization was involved in Hersh's 1969 story?

2. After the U.S. Army operation in western Afghanistan, how many Al Qaeda members were supposedly killed?

3. When did F.B.I. agents begin to complain of more wrongdoings?

4. When were the court martial proceedings supposed to occur in the Abu Ghraib investigations?

5. The Administration said there was no way an event such as 9/11 could have been what?

Short Essay Questions

1. After 9/11, what was considered critical to winning the war on terror?

2. What describes Hersh's attitude towards the U.S. government after 9/11?

3. When did Perle end up resigning as Chairman of the Defense Policy Board?

4. What happened to Moussaoui in prison?

5. What was it shown that the common perception in Abu Ghraib was of what the military would allow?

6. What is one of the questions that we will never know the answer to about the Bush presidency?

7. What did General Janis Karpinski's background consist of?

8. What did the CIA analyst say when he came back from Guantanamo?

9. What did the Israelis do from their base in Iraqi Kurdistan?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is "Pandora's Box" and why would assassinating foreign leaders open it? According to the rest of the information presented in the book, was Pandora's Box opened? Cite examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

After 9/11, there was a "war on terror." According to the evidence presented in this book, was this an apt name for the events that occurred after 9/11?

Essay Topic 3

What was some of the intelligence information that said the U.S. might be attacked? What were some of the chances the U.S. had to gather intelligence that it missed in favor of other priorities? What does this show about the competence of the Bush Administration specifically, and the government in general, to cooperate in intelligence gathering and processing? Support your answer with specific examples from the book.

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