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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Avrakotos gain a low-level appointment?
(a) In the Middle Eastern division.
(b) In the Asian division.
(c) In the Latin America division.
(d) In the South American division.

2. How does Charlie Wilson take the honored greeting he receives in Israel?
(a) Very personally.
(b) With surprise.
(c) With annoyance.
(d) Very lightly.

3. Of the forty-nine other recruits, how many hail from Ivy League schools?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Forty-two.
(c) Thirty-eight.
(d) Twenty-eight.

4. Why does Avrakotos not find anything written about the CIA?
(a) He only searches in the public library.
(b) It is dangerous to write about the CIA, so most authors avoid the subject.
(c) Only CIA agents can write about the CIA, and the agents are not often good writers.
(d) In the early sixties, to write about the American spy is unpatriotic.

5. When a recruiter from IBM presents a lucrative offer, why does Avrakotos refuse it?
(a) He wants to be a CIA agent.
(b) He is too busy working already.
(c) He has a problem with their stuffy dress code.
(d) He is uncomfortable working with computers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Avrakotos take the job offered to him by the CIA recruiter?

2. How does Charlie Wilson arrive?

3. Years later, the author reports, Hart fails to believe what?

4. After telling off the European chief, who does Avrakotos alienate?

5. What does Wilson secretly study?

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