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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the government instruct Afghani mothers to do?
(a) Hold secret funeral services.
(b) Forget they had sons.
(c) Leave off mentioning service on the gravestones of their dead sons.
(d) Have death certificates made that give a wrong cause of death.

2. Unlike Howard Hart, how does Avrakotos leave the division?
(a) With an official award.
(b) With satisfaction.
(c) With pride.
(d) Without an official award.

3. What does everyone in the CIA believe about Wilson and his plans in Egypt?
(a) He is an embarrassment to the United States.
(b) He should not be taking a vacation at this time.
(c) He is not the appropriate person to be meeting with a Prime Minister.
(d) He stands to gain from the deal.

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

5. Why does the CIA rush to get weapons in place?
(a) Before the Afghans can get revenge.
(b) Before the Russians can attack.
(c) Before the truce is broken.
(d) Before the truce goes into effect.

6. For what does Wilson continue to push the CIA?
(a) A smaller war effort.
(b) A secretive war effort.
(c) An end to the war.
(d) A bigger war effort.

7. What happens to President Zia in the summer of 1988?
(a) He dies in a plane crash.
(b) He dies from a heart attack.
(c) He resigns.
(d) He is assassinated.

8. What happens soon after Wilson arrives home?
(a) He becomes ill.
(b) He is presented an award at a dinner.
(c) Joanne wants to see him.
(d) A scandal breaks.

9. Why does the CIA express deep gratitude for Wilson?
(a) He quickly aided them in ending the scandal.
(b) He has always supported the agency.
(c) For all his work with the agency.
(d) He has been friends with Avrakotos.

10. How does Avrakotos receive the ideas?
(a) With excitement.
(b) With dismay.
(c) With annoyance.
(d) With fear.

11. What year becomes key in the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1985.

12. How does the story begin to leak into the public?
(a) The mothers begin to talk to the press.
(b) The soldiers who return alive go to the press.
(c) The fathers begin to talk to the press.
(d) The soldiers begin returning home, many injured.

13. How do many radical Muslims feel?
(a) Wilson is a great man.
(b) Now that they took down one superpower, they can take on more.
(c) The United States saved them.
(d) War is over.

14. Why does an embarrassing trip take place for Wilson and Sweetums?
(a) A strict pilot refuses to allow her on the DEA plane.
(b) Sweetums gets on the wrong plane.
(c) Wilson is drunk and acts inappropriately.
(d) Wilson sneaks Sweetums onto a DEA plane.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Avrakotos and Wilson meet?

2. With President Reagan's reelection, what happens to the political scene in Washington?

3. With the exit of Simpson, who does Charlie Wilson hire?

4. What would these flights also transport to the United States?

5. In the beginning of 1986, who takes over in Afghanistan?

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