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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Madeleine Albright and who else declared publicly multiple times the U.S. would align with no side in Afghan's war?
(a) Tom Pickering, Tom Simons
(b) Richard Clarke, Tom Simons.
(c) Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth, Tom Pickering.
(d) Richard Clarke, Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth.

2. Six weeks after Massoud took Kabul, what was first on a list of strict rules imposed by religious police?
(a) Tailors displaying fashion magazines were jailed.
(b) Taxis must not stop for women without full burqa.
(c) Women washing clothes in a river were sent home.
(d) Unmarried females could not appear in public alone.

3. Where was a champagne party held when the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan?
(a) CIA headquarters.
(b) KGB headquarters.
(c) ISI headquarters.
(d) MI6 headquarters.

4. Marwan al-Shehhi told which librarian thousands would die at the World Trade Center, but he did not seem serious?
(a) Heidi Pfennig.
(b) Martha Schmidt.
(c) Lydia Himmler.
(d) Angela Duile.

5. Which two al-Qaeda operatives arrested around the 2000 New Year planned to carry out terrorist attacks?
(a) Abu Zubaydeh in Jordan, Ahmed Ressan in Washington state.
(b) Abu Zubaydeh in Germany, Ahmed Ressan in San Francisco.
(c) Abu Zubaydeh in Syria, Ahmed Ressan in Miami.
(d) Abu Zubaydeh in Kuwait, Ahmed Ressan in New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Views differ on what was said, but instead of Saudis, Sudanese spoke with bin Laden and he moved where?

2. The U.S. was to accept severe social regulations imposed by the Taliban for what reason?

3. Tenet was frustrated by what attention the Clinton Cabinet provided the al Qaeda threat?

4. How did Coll describe the relationship between Black and Pillar?

5. By what time had bin Laden moved to Peshawar?

(see the answer key)

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