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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the foreign oil representatives arrived in Afghanistan, why would Mullah Omar not meet with them?
(a) They were not Afghans.
(b) They were not Taliban.
(c) They were not Muslims.
(d) They did not have full beards.

2. When was there a meeting in Moscow in which the Soviets decided to pull out of Afghanistan within a year or two?
(a) 31 May 1987.
(b) 21 March 1987.
(c) 12 January 1987.
(d) 13 November 1986.

3. Gary Schroen, a CIA agent, met with Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was what?
(a) Current Afghan president.
(b) Current Afghan defense minister.
(c) Former Afghan defense minister.
(d) Former Afghan president.

4. So this second prisoner would be kept alive, the tribe was to hold him in a cave for how long until Americans came?
(a) 180 days.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 90 days.
(d) 30 days.

5. Economic sanctions were imposed by the U.S. against which nation in 1993 because of government-sponsored terrorism?
(a) Sudan.
(b) Syria.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

Short Answer Questions

1. There were how many direct contacts between a CIA officer and bin Laden in the 1980s?

2. How many casualties resulted in these two U.S. embassy attacks in Africa?

3. How did the author describe Clinton's view of the CIA as an institution?

4. Such attacks continued world-wide and U.S. intelligence saw a new terrorist generation had emerged by what point?

5. The new National Security Decision Directive in 1985 made it harder to keep CIA involvement secret and there was concern the Soviets would retaliate against what nations?

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