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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author identified which rebel as the one the Saudis viewed as most important?
(a) Hamid Karzai.
(b) Abdurrab Rasul Sayyaf.
(c) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
(d) Osama bin Laden.

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

3. Mir Amal Kasi was from a wealthy Pakistani family near Quetta who worked as a what?
(a) Ambassador.
(b) Singer.
(c) Courier.
(d) Interpreter.

4. There were how many direct contacts between a CIA officer and bin Laden in the 1980s?
(a) Only one.
(b) One in person and two by telephone.
(c) None.
(d) One in person and one by telephone.

5. It was decided to treat terrorists as criminals with no claims to political legitimacy, and which was selected as the lead agency in 1995?
(a) CIA.
(b) DIA.
(c) FBI.
(d) DIA.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, whose views in the Department of State ran counter to those of the CIA at Langley?

3. Gary Schroen, a CIA agent, met with Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was what?

4. In 1993. the CIA was warned by the State Department envoy in Central Asia that the policy of allowing the Afghans to find their own solution achieved what?

5. Cofer Black became the CIA station chief in which capital city in 1993?

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