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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. Does Avrokotos response faze Wilson?
(a) Yes.
(b) At first.
(c) No.
(d) A little.

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

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

4. Where do the two sides of the Afghan war reach a truce?
(a) In Geneva.
(b) In Zurich.
(c) In Paris.
(d) In Versailles.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The war in Afghanistan falls under Avrakotos's department. What else falls under his department?

3. During Christmas of 1986, how does Wilson reward eighteen months of good behavior?

4. What happens when Avrakotos gives a small ammunition contract to a factory in Pakistan?

5. What does Ghazala give them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Vickers worry about his plan? How is he surprised?

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

3. What does Chapter Twenty-eight introduce?

4. What does Wilson continue to do at this time?

5. What happens by September of 1986?

6. What does the enormous budget for Afghanistan do for Avrakotos?

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

8. What happens as soon as Wilson arrives home?

9. What are the greatest injustices with Avrakotos' leave?

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

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