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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From where is this person?

3. What do these feelings of invincibility give Avrakotos?

4. Wilson feels his fighting spirit revive after what?

5. To whom does Herring introduce Wilson?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the charges dropped against Wilson?

2. How does Wilson go against Congressional custom? What is the response to this?

3. How does Zia feel about Americans, in the beginning? How does the CIA feel about Afghanistan?

4. How does Howard Hart feel about Wilson's win?

5. What happens after AVrakotos tells off the European chief?

6. How does Chapter Thirteen open?

7. Who does Wilson begin to woo? Who is this person?

8. How does Avrakotos feel about Wilson's rationale for money? How does he act publicly?

9. Describe Wilson's time with the navy.

10. What does Avrakotos do in 1962?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wilson stays sober for eighteen months.

Part 1) What does this foreshadow?

Part 2) What does he do during these eighteen months? Are his actions different now that he is sober? Explain.

Part 3) How and why does he revert back to previous behaviors?

Essay Topic 2

Avrakotos works for the African division.

Part 1) Why does he begin working for the African division? How does he react to this? Why does he react this way?

Part 2) What is unfair about his change of division? What does this say about his power and influence?

Part 3) Why does Avrakotos' career end the way it does? How doe she feel about this? Why might he feel this way?

Essay Topic 3

The CIA begins to worry that putting the deadly mujahideen in charge will not be in any country's best interest.

Part 1) Who are the mujahideen? Why does the CIA not trust them?

Part 2) What does this worry foreshadow?

Part 3) What are Wilson's thoughts about the mujahideen?

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