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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With President Reagan's reelection, what happens to the political scene in Washington?
(a) It turns deadly.
(b) It turns against Wilson.
(c) It turns to foreign aid projects.
(d) It turns to internal projects.

2. What happens when Avrakotos gives a small ammunition contract to a factory in Pakistan?
(a) Yasouf befriends Avrakotos.
(b) Yasouf steps aside.
(c) Yasouf does not allow the factory to take the contract.
(d) Yasouf becomes angry.

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

4. When the last of the Russians leave Afghanistan in February of 1989, where is Avrakotos watching it on television?
(a) In Paris.
(b) In Athens.
(c) In London.
(d) In Rome.

5. A congressional aide to McCollum, Vaughn Forest, approaches Wilson with what?
(a) A request from McCollum.
(b) Ideas for the war.
(c) Ideas for ending the war.
(d) A truce between Russia and Afghanistan.

6. What detailed look does the author give?
(a) At the morale of the Americans during this time.
(b) At the American soldiers' treatment.
(c) At the morale of the Soviets during this time.
(d) At the treatment of the Soviet soldiers.

7. What is significant about the honor Avrakotos gets from the agency's African-American employees?
(a) He is the first white man to receive it.
(b) He is the first man to receive it.
(c) He has never been rewarded before.
(d) He is the last white man to receive it.

8. What is Wilson's new assistant not above doing?
(a) Traveling to speaking engagements around the world.
(b) Fighting the Afghans.
(c) Smuggling contraband items.
(d) Arguing with Congress.

9. What would these flights also transport to the United States?
(a) World leaders.
(b) The leaders of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
(c) Wounded mujahideen.
(d) Weapons from the Middle East.

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

11. Without a war to fight, what happens to Wilson?
(a) He spends more time traveling.
(b) He quickly returns to drinking.
(c) He looks for new wars to start.
(d) He retires.

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

13. In that time, what does Wilson begin pursuing?
(a) Improving his public image.
(b) A promotion.
(c) New weapons for Afghanistan.
(d) Another woman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does 1984 bring Wilson?

2. What does Ghazala give them?

3. How do many radical Muslims feel?

4. Why does Zia lie?

5. In staffing his team for this volatile part of the earth, Avrakotos insists on keeping his team ________.

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