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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 is the name of the base in Cuba where prisoners were sent?

2. What happened to all possibly "dirty" agents in the C.I.A.?

3. Who began advocating a pre-emptive military action against Iraq in the Bush Administration?

4. What position did Nizar Khazraji hold?

5. In late 2001, who opposed any surrender negotiations with the Taliban?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had the U.S. succeeded in stabilizing more than a year after Rumsfeld's pronouncement of Afghanistan's successes?

2. What happened when the U.S. challenged North Korea, diplomatically, about stopping nuclear operations in October 2002?

3. How had several key Taliban members escaped the original Afghanistan situation?

4. Why did the U.S. forces go into battle unprepared?

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

6. What did inspectors find in Libyan nuclear inspections?

7. What did Hersh write about for his first major story?

8. What is one of the worst scenarios in weapons proliferation?

9. Why did Israel want the U.S. to seal the Iraq-Iran border in mid-2003?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why was Abu Ghraib such a scandal? According to the author of the book, what caused it, what did the people in power do, and how could it have been presented?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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