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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The CIA suspected Pakistani intelligence worked with bin Laden and trained recruits to fight where?
(a) Kashmir.
(b) Kashubi.
(c) Kashan.
(d) Kashgar.

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

3. When did the Bush administration begin to study the al-Qaeda problem?
(a) June 2001.
(b) April 2001.
(c) August 2001.
(d) February 2001.

4. By 1996, Massoud's popularity stood where?
(a) Increasing.
(b) Stable.
(c) Gone.
(d) Waning.

5. How did Coll describe the relationship between Black and Pillar?
(a) "Skeptical of each other's approach."
(b) A tight and natural partner."
(c) Distrusting of each other."
(d) "Not a natural partner."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Soviets invade Afghanistan with their goal to kill the Afghan leader, Hafizullah Amin, and install a new communist regime?

2. What group did Massoud join while at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?

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

4. Shortly into 2000, the Counterterrorist Center picked up information that bin Laden had arrived in what location?

5. Tenet was frustrated by what attention the Clinton Cabinet provided the al Qaeda threat?

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