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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who published a joint manifesto with bin Laden that declared the U.S. as the enemy in 1998?
(a) Mohammed Atef.
(b) Ayman al-Zawahiri.
(c) Aburrashid Dostum.
(d) Abdullah Azzam.

2. Egyptian Sheikh Rahman suffered from what physical disability?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Mute.

3. Not long after they formed, the Taliban captured what city?
(a) Karachi.
(b) Khakassia.
(c) Kandahar.
(d) Khartoum.

4. When was the treaty for the Soviet withdrawal signed in Geneva?
(a) 16 October 1988.
(b) 12 July 1988.
(c) 18 January 1989.
(d) 14 April 1988.

5. The U.S. was to accept severe social regulations imposed by the Taliban for what reason?
(a) Islamic laws were likely to be overthrown.
(b) Regulations resulted in peace for most of the country.
(c) U.S. had no authority on Islamic law imposition.
(d) Regulations were founded on religious Islamic law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term did Paul Pillar, a chief analyst at the CIA Counterterrorist Center, use when he described individuals like Yousef?

2. Six weeks after Massoud took Kabul, what was first on a list of strict rules imposed by religious police?

3. Tenet's reform program for the CIA did what?

4. The Taliban was initiated with which individual as its leader?

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

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