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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the treaty for the Soviet withdrawal signed in Geneva?
(a) 16 October 1988.
(b) 18 January 1989.
(c) 12 July 1988.
(d) 14 April 1988.

2. How was President Zia killed?
(a) Plane crash.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Bomb explosion.
(d) Commando raid.

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

4. What was the new U.S. plan for covert war in Afghanistan known as?
(a) National Security Decision Directive 166.
(b) National Security Decision Directive 007.
(c) National Security Decision Directive U-2.
(d) National Security Decision Directive Tight Fist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Massoud felt he had recovered some political and military momentum in opposition to the Taliban by what point?

2. Massoud's group was suspicious of the U.S. and its relationship to the Taliban, but who was his one CIA link?

3. It was decided to treat terrorists as criminals with no claims to political legitimacy, and which was selected as the lead agency in 1995?

4. Argentine oilman Carlos Bulgheroni had the same idea as Unocal and had whose support?

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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