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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Tight Fist.
(d) National Security Decision Directive U-2.

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

3. When did the Soviets invade Afghanistan with their goal to kill the Afghan leader, Hafizullah Amin, and install a new communist regime?
(a) January 1979.
(b) July 1979.
(c) March 1979.
(d) December 1979.

4. What was the Taliban trying to clear Afghanistan of?
(a) Religious leaders.
(b) Elected officials.
(c) Military dictator.
(d) Warlords.

5. In what year did CIA agent Howard Hart become the station chief in Islamabad?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1979.

Short Answer Questions

1. The war in Afghanistan cost the Soviet Union how many billion dollars?

2. In what year did the Taliban form?

3. 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?

4. When did the Islamic opposition revolt against the established communist Russian government in Herat, Afghanistan?

5. The author identified which rebel as the one the Saudis viewed as most important?

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