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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The CIA-sponsored rebels were facing what type of constant Soviet attacks in 1986?
(a) Tank.
(b) Mortar.
(c) Missile.
(d) Helicopter.

4. Like all students at the time while attending Kabul Polytechnic Institute, what did Massoud have a choice between?
(a) Communism or radical Islam.
(b) Leninism or radical Buddhism.
(c) Nazism or radical Judaism.
(d) Marxism or radical Hinduism.

5. What did Massoud's group protect?
(a) Solang Airport.
(b) Solang Hospital.
(c) Solang Highway.
(d) Solang Valley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did CIA agent Howard Hart become the station chief in Islamabad?

2. In what year did the Taliban form?

3. Massoud was a top target for the Soviets because his group used and repaired captured weapons and equipment against which nationality?

4. Abdullah Azzam moved to Peshawar from Islamabad in 1984 and founded what to raise money?

5. Bin Laden was sponsoring jihad in Communist Yemen and opposed the Saudi government when they allowed American troops in to liberate which nation?

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