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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1996, the CIA was attempting to recover Stinger missiles but encountered what problem with the Taliban?
(a) They would sell back only damaged ones.
(b) They claimed they had none.
(c) They demanded too high a price.
(d) They would not sell back the ones they had.

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

3. Which nation did not meet multilateral lending requirements for the pipeline at that time?
(a) Kazakhstan.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Tajikistan.
(d) Turkmenistan.

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

5. Six weeks after Massoud took Kabul, what was first on a list of strict rules imposed by religious police?
(a) Taxis must not stop for women without full burqa.
(b) Tailors displaying fashion magazines were jailed.
(c) Women washing clothes in a river were sent home.
(d) Unmarried females could not appear in public alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Abdullah Azzam moved to Peshawar from Islamabad in 1984 and founded what to raise money?

2. Hamid Gul was Director-General of the ISI during what period?

3. When was the CIA's Counterterrorist Center formed?

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

5. What was the Taliban trying to clear Afghanistan of?

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