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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) Gone.
(b) Increasing.
(c) Stable.
(d) Waning.

2. What transpired in November 1989 that meant Afghan President Najibullah was no longer part of a world Communist movement?
(a) Fall of the Berlin Wall.
(b) Soviet decision to pull out of Afghanistan.
(c) State Department call for a successor to him.
(d) Tiananmen Square protests.

3. Abdullah Azzam moved to Peshawar from Islamabad in 1984 and founded what to raise money?
(a) Travel Services Office.
(b) Office of Tour Services.
(c) Agency of Services.
(d) Office of Services.

4. Where did Massoud live from the age of 11?
(a) Tehran.
(b) Islamabad.
(c) Kabul.
(d) Riyadh.

5. The new National Security Decision Directive in 1985 made it harder to keep CIA involvement secret and there was concern the Soviets would retaliate against what nations?
(a) Afghanistan, U.S.
(b) Afghanistan, Pakistan.
(c) Saudi Arabia, U.S.
(d) Pakistan, U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Taliban trying to clear Afghanistan of?

2. While he received money and supplies through the CIA without the Pakistanis knowing it, Massoud had no contact with the CIA during what decade because of the CIA agreement with Pakistan?

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

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

5. The CIA fed what to Massoud's organization during the war with the Soviet Union?

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