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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yosef and his associates also had plans to hijack a plane and crash it where?
(a) Pentagon.
(b) White House.
(c) CIA headquarters.
(d) U.N. headquarters.

2. What was seen as the biggest threat once the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan?
(a) Radical Islam.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Nuclear capability.
(d) Dictatorship.

3. Tenet was frustrated by what attention the Clinton Cabinet provided the al Qaeda threat?
(a) "Ignored."
(b) "On-and-off."
(c) "Minimal."
(d) "Too late."

4. When was the CIA's Counterterrorist Center formed?
(a) 1 August 1991.
(b) 1 February 1986.
(c) 1 February 1990.
(d) 1 August 1988.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Islamic opposition revolt against the established communist Russian government in Herat, Afghanistan?

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

3. In each case that the Clinton Cabinet considered cruise missile strikes, what was a decisive problem?

4. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?

5. The CIA's Counterterrorist Center established a new office dedicated to bin Laden in what year?

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