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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?
(a) October 1986.
(b) August 1988.
(c) June 1985.
(d) December 1987.

2. Where on his inventory of threats the U.S. faced did Tenet rank bin Laden in 1999?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

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

4. Where did the Hamburg cell, as it was known, coalesce?
(a) A shabby mosque.
(b) A shabby hotel room.
(c) A coffee shop back room.
(d) A gymnasium back room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was President Zia killed?

2. Madeleine Albright and who else declared publicly multiple times the U.S. would align with no side in Afghan's war?

3. By early 1999, Tenet was certain that bin Laden would be capable of striking the U.S. at what point?

4. Six weeks after Massoud took Kabul, what was first on a list of strict rules imposed by religious police?

5. The CIA's Counterterrorist Center established a new office dedicated to bin Laden in what year?

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