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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?
(a) Flying to the United Nations.
(b) Flower gardening.
(c) Hospitalized.
(d) Bike riding.

2. What term did Paul Pillar, a chief analyst at the CIA Counterterrorist Center, use when he described individuals like Yousef?
(a) "Ad hoc terrorists."
(b) "Rental terrorists."
(c) "Cowboy terrorists."
(d) "Tinkertoy terrorists."

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) Iraq.
(b) Oman.
(c) Kuwait.
(d) Lebanon.

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

5. The Taliban leaders met with Saudi intelligence as they had to learn how to form and operate what?
(a) Taliban intelligence unit.
(b) Rebel commando units.
(c) Financial gathering operations.
(d) Islamic government.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The war in Afghanistan cost the Soviet Union how many billion dollars?

5. In what year did the Taliban form?

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