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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Massoud was a top target for the Soviets because his group used and repaired captured weapons and equipment against which nationality?
(a) Pakistanis.
(b) Saudis.
(c) Afghans.
(d) Soviets.

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

5. Some of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombers belong to al-Qaeda sleeper cells in Africa, and all were trained where?
(a) Iran.
(b) Yemen.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) Afghanistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The success of the CIA depended on Hart's ability to work with Akhtar due Rahman in developing what list?

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

3. Where did Massoud live from the age of 11?

4. Bin Laden was sponsoring jihad in Communist Yemen and opposed the Saudi government when they allowed American troops in to liberate which nation?

5. Prince Turki al-Faisal was chief of Saudi intelligence during what period?

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