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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1996, Massoud's popularity stood where?
(a) Stable.
(b) Gone.
(c) Increasing.
(d) Waning.

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

3. At what point was the CIA allowed to begin operations in Afghanistan using Zia's intelligence service as an intermediary?
(a) March 1979.
(b) January 1979.
(c) December 1979.
(d) July 1979.

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

5. Bin Laden had already formed the al-Qaeda and moved his family back to Saudi Arabia in what year?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 10, where did Jallaladin Haqqanni operate near and test weapons and equipment for the CIA?

2. In what year did the Taliban form?

3. When did the Soviets attack bin Laden's camp at Jaji which established him as a warrior with Arab jihadists?

4. Prince Turki al-Faisal was chief of Saudi intelligence during what period?

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

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