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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 did the Soviets invade Afghanistan with their goal to kill the Afghan leader, Hafizullah Amin, and install a new communist regime?
(a) March 1979.
(b) July 1979.
(c) December 1979.
(d) January 1979.

2. The CIA fed what to Massoud's organization during the war with the Soviet Union?
(a) Large amounts of ammunition.
(b) Large amounts of gold .
(c) Large amounts of drugs .
(d) Large amounts of money .

3. At what point was the CIA allowed to begin operations in Afghanistan using Zia's intelligence service as an intermediary?
(a) March 1979.
(b) January 1979.
(c) December 1979.
(d) July 1979.

4. Madeleine Albright and who else declared publicly multiple times the U.S. would align with no side in Afghan's war?
(a) Richard Clarke, Tom Simons.
(b) Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth, Tom Pickering.
(c) Tom Pickering, Tom Simons
(d) Richard Clarke, Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth.

5. Bin Laden was sponsoring jihad in Communist Yemen and opposed the Saudi government when they allowed American troops in to liberate which nation?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Kuwait.
(c) Iraq.
(d) Oman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the response to information provided by Pillar's Counterterrorist Center?

2. The U.S. embassy attack was coordinated by a radical group at which university?

3. 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?

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

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

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