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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the new U.S. plan for covert war in Afghanistan known as?
(a) National Security Decision Directive 007.
(b) National Security Decision Directive Tight Fist.
(c) National Security Decision Directive 166.
(d) National Security Decision Directive U-2.

2. The CIA and ISI planned another offensive to build the strength of Massoud and other rebel leaders that called for them to take Kabul in which winter?
(a) 1988-1989.
(b) 1987-1988.
(c) 1990-1991.
(d) 1989-1990.

3. By fall of 1998, who seemed an ideal CIA partner at the Pentagon given his extensive Special Forces experience?
(a) General Shelton Hughes.
(b) General Hugh Shelton.
(c) General Hugh Sheldon.
(d) General Hugo Sheraton.

4. In what year was Bhutto ousted from office and Nawaz Sharif became prime minister?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1997
(d) 1996.

5. In Chapter Five, what did CIA director William Casey advise President Ronald Reagan about their Afghanistan campaign?
(a) It had been successful.
(b) It had been partially successful.
(c) It was not yet finished.
(d) It had failed.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did the Turkmenistan government make their deal?

2. The Hamburg cell, which derived its name from the German city it met in, included which members?

3. In Chapter 10, whose views in the Department of State ran counter to those of the CIA at Langley?

4. Government lawyers debated for months under what circumstances lethal force was legal and when it constituted what?

5. Who was the ISI head from 1998 to 1999?

(see the answer key)

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