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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wilson shows interest in Vickers' plan, but on what does he still insist?
(a) Being in charge of the entire operation.
(b) The need for a weapon to shoot down the Hind helicopters.
(c) HIring someone with more prestige.
(d) A plan for ridding the Afghans of the Soviet forces.

2. Why does Pakistani General Yasouf move to block the plan?
(a) He holds a grudge against Wilson.
(b) He holds a grudge against US officials.
(c) He worries about the safety of his people.
(d) He does not trust the Russians.

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

4. One colleague from the agency calls to congratulate him. What does Avrakotos realize?
(a) How much he misses the United States.
(b) How much he still misses Wilson.
(c) How much he misses his colleagues.
(d) How much he misses his job.

5. With the exit of Simpson, who does Charlie Wilson hire?
(a) Joanne Herring.
(b) Charles Schnabel.
(c) Mike Vickers.
(d) Gust Avrakotos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vickers leave Avrakotos and the CIA?

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

3. Of what does Russian leader Gorbachev accuse Pakistan's President Zia?

4. Why is Vickers fearful to suggest radical changes?

5. Why does Zia lie?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does 1985 become the key in the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan?

2. What happens as soon as Wilson arrives home?

3. What does Chapter Twenty-eight introduce?

4. What does the author do in Chapter Thirty-three?

5. Under what department do the wars in Afghanistan and between Iran and Iraq fall? What does this agency feel about this?

6. What does Vickers point out to Avrakotos?

7. What happens as the war in Afghanistan gains legitimacy?

8. Who is Mike Vickers?

9. What truce is decided upon in Geneva?

10. What do Charlie Wilson and Gust Avrakotos work out?

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