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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Charlie Wilson and Gust Avrakotos quickly work out?
(a) A way to compromise with each other.
(b) A way to play the system in both Congress and the CIA.
(c) An agreement for working with each other.
(d) A trip to Pakistan.

2. During Christmas of 1986, how does Wilson reward eighteen months of good behavior?
(a) With a party.
(b) With one night of drinking.
(c) With a celebration.
(d) With a dinner out.

3. What do they also discover?
(a) A cache of a type of rocket the agency has wanted for years.
(b) The instructions for creating weapons of mass destruction.
(c) The United States is not as powerful as they had believed.
(d) Their weaponry is very antiquated.

4. How does Wilson gain a flight to a dinner in his honor?
(a) His friends want to honor him.
(b) He pays enough money.
(c) He calls in multiple favors.
(d) Leaders he has met want to honor him.

5. While on duty, he operates as a successful officer, but often shows what?
(a) Silly habits.
(b) Unusual habits.
(c) Unconventional habits.
(d) Conventional habits.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the CIA carefully become involved with Afghanistan?

2. What does the author point out about Wilson's term?

3. What does Ghazala give them?

4. Why does Avrakotos' job in Greece lose some of its appeal?

5. The tribes of Pastun and Massoud fight one another. About what do they more or less agree?

(see the answer key)

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