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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. What do these feelings of invincibility give Avrakotos?

2. Upon this first visit, what does Wilson decide that the freedom fighters need?

3. How does Wilson hit another car while he he is driving?

4. What job does Avrakotos have?

5. At age twenty-seven, Wilson runs for what and wins?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Charlie Wilson do on June 27, 1980?

4. What happens after Wilson's Las Vegas hot tub party is leaked?

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

6. Describe Wilson's trip to Pakistan in 1984.

7. What does Wilson do after returning from Pakistan?

8. What makes Wilson the first congressman to give money to the CIA?

9. What happens to Avrakotos in 1975?

10. How does the CIA carefully become involved when the Soviets attack Afghanistan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Avrakoto gains power in the CIA.

Part 1) How dose he gain power? Is this difficult for him? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does his childhood and upbringing foreshadow this success?

Part 3) How is this power lost? What is his reaction to this? Why does he react this way?

Essay Topic 2

Wilson decides the freedom fighters need a way to shoot down the Russian's Hind helicopter.

Part 1) How does he come to this decision? how does he also become somewhat obsessed with this mission?

Part 2) What steps does he take to acquire these weapons? What does this reveal about his character?

Part 3) How do these weapons and his efforts to acquire them affect us today?

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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