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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the White House national security adviser between 1993 and 1997?
(a) Samuel L. "Sandy" Berger.
(b) Zbigniew Brzezinski.
(c) Anthony "Tony" Lake.
(d) Richard Clarke.

3. When the foreign oil representatives arrived in Afghanistan, why would Mullah Omar not meet with them?
(a) They did not have full beards.
(b) They were not Muslims.
(c) They were not Taliban.
(d) They were not Afghans.

4. Tenet was frustrated by what attention the Clinton Cabinet provided the al Qaeda threat?
(a) "Ignored."
(b) "Minimal."
(c) "On-and-off."
(d) "Too late."

5. When was there a meeting in Moscow in which the Soviets decided to pull out of Afghanistan within a year or two?
(a) 31 May 1987.
(b) 13 November 1986.
(c) 12 January 1987.
(d) 21 March 1987.

Short Answer Questions

1. Uzbekistan, which is bordered to the south by Afghanistan, was ruled by which individual in 1999?

2. Which nation did not meet multilateral lending requirements for the pipeline at that time?

3. Marwan al-Shehhi told which librarian thousands would die at the World Trade Center, but he did not seem serious?

4. The first CIA Northern Afghanistan Liaison Team (NALT-1) flew by what means from Dushanbe to the Panjshir Valley in 1997?

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

(see the answer key)

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