1. The U.S. embassy attack was coordinated by a radical group at which university?
(a) Quaid-I-Azam University.
(b) Kabul Polytechnic Institute.
(c) Tehran University.
(d) University of Afghanistan.

2. When did riots in Islamabad and an attack on the U.S. embassy take place?
(a) 21 December 1979.
(b) 21 October 1979.
(c) 21 November 1979.
(d) 21 September 1979.

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

4. In what year did the Taliban form?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1990.

5. When was the CIA's Counterterrorist Center formed?
(a) 1 August 1988.
(b) 1 August 1991.
(c) 1 February 1990.
(d) 1 February 1986.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where did Massoud live from the age of 11?

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

4. Hart also met regularly with Akhtar due Rahman, who directed the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence agency known as what?

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

(see the answer key)

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