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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many of the reports from Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia were treated how in Washington?
(a) Accepted.
(b) Required more study.
(c) Probable.
(d) Discounted.

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

3. By 1996, Massoud's popularity stood where?
(a) Gone.
(b) Waning.
(c) Increasing.
(d) Stable.

4. What city was a haven for noted radical Carlos the Jackal?
(a) Karachi.
(b) Khartoum.
(c) Beirut.
(d) Munich.

5. Where was a champagne party held when the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan?
(a) KGB headquarters.
(b) ISI headquarters.
(c) CIA headquarters.
(d) MI6 headquarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Taliban form?

2. Bin Laden had already formed the al-Qaeda and moved his family back to Saudi Arabia in what year?

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

4. The CIA-sponsored rebels were facing what type of constant Soviet attacks in 1986?

5. Like all students at the time while attending Kabul Polytechnic Institute, what did Massoud have a choice between?

(see the answer key)

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