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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The CIA fed what to Massoud's organization during the war with the Soviet Union?
(a) Large amounts of ammunition.
(b) Large amounts of drugs .
(c) Large amounts of gold .
(d) Large amounts of money .

3. Bin Laden was sponsoring jihad in Communist Yemen and opposed the Saudi government when they allowed American troops in to liberate which nation?
(a) Kuwait.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Lebanon.
(d) Oman.

4. With what was the CIA and government more concerned when they received this Central Asia envoy's warning?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Iran.
(d) Kuwait.

5. 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 Tight Fist.
(c) National Security Decision Directive U-2.
(d) National Security Decision Directive 007.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Bin Laden in Saudi Arabia to promote radical Islamic policies that irritated the government that he had to leave?

2. By the mid-1980s, the Afghan rebels were staging attacks within what borders?

3. There were how many direct contacts between a CIA officer and bin Laden in the 1980s?

4. The CIA did not favor the use of Stingers because they could be used by terrorists against what?

5. By 1996, Massoud's popularity stood where?

(see the answer key)

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