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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?
(a) Bike riding.
(b) Flower gardening.
(c) Hospitalized.
(d) Flying to the United Nations.

2. What action did Massoud take when the Soviets planned to attack the Panjshir Valley?
(a) Assimilated into neighboring towns.
(b) Fled the valley.
(c) Ordered it evacuated.
(d) Set up military defenses.

3. Since Pakistan was close to having nuclear capability, American aid ended under what law?
(a) Reagan Amendment.
(b) Pixler Amendment.
(c) Baker Amendment.
(d) Pressler Amendment.

4. In Chapter 10, whose views in the Department of State ran counter to those of the CIA at Langley?
(a) William Milam.
(b) Madeleine Albright.
(c) Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth.
(d) Edmund McWilliams.

5. The CIA fed what to Massoud's organization during the war with the Soviet Union?
(a) Large amounts of ammunition.
(b) Large amounts of gold .
(c) Large amounts of money .
(d) Large amounts of drugs .

Short Answer Questions

1. There were how many direct contacts between a CIA officer and bin Laden in the 1980s?

2. What transpired in November 1989 that meant Afghan President Najibullah was no longer part of a world Communist movement?

3. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?

4. What was the new U.S. plan for covert war in Afghanistan known as?

5. Bin Laden had already formed the al-Qaeda and moved his family back to Saudi Arabia in what year?

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