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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Five, what did CIA director William Casey advise President Ronald Reagan about their Afghanistan campaign?
(a) It had been partially successful.
(b) It had been successful.
(c) It was not yet finished.
(d) It had failed.

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

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

4. By the mid-1980s, the Afghan rebels were staging attacks within what borders?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Romania.
(c) Soviet Union.
(d) Ukraine.

5. The war in Afghanistan cost the Soviet Union how many billion dollars?
(a) 16.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yousef received jihad bomb training and participated in the attack where?

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

3. Many of the reports from Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia were treated how in Washington?

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

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

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