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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Wilson secretly study?
(a) Marxism.
(b) The history of Communism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Military history.

4. How does Charlie Wilson arrive?
(a) With his wife and children.
(b) With all the fanfare of a very rich man, though he actually makes only a modest salary.
(c) With a large group of security guards.
(d) Very quiety and discreetly.

5. What strategy does Wilson employ?
(a) One of silence.
(b) One of honesty.
(c) One of dishonesty.
(d) One of secrecy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Avrakotos quit school?

2. About whom does the author give background information?

3. Wilson's call for more support of the conflict in Afghanistan marks what?

4. How do the Soviets gain worldwide negative attention?

5. Early in childhood what desire does Avrakotos have?

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