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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what time had bin Laden moved to Peshawar?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1984.

2. Who was the Afghan bureau chief for the ISI from 1983-1987?
(a) Mohammed Yousaf.
(b) Kuwaja Ziauddin.
(c) Naseem Rana.
(d) Asad Durrani.

3. Many of the Kandahar Durranis were living where in exile in 1994?
(a) Primarily Middle East.
(b) Primarily Southern Africa.
(c) Various parts of the world.
(d) Primarily Central Asia.

4. The author identified which rebel as the one the Saudis viewed as most important?
(a) Hamid Karzai.
(b) Abdurrab Rasul Sayyaf.
(c) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
(d) Osama bin Laden.

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) Oman.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Iraq.
(d) Kuwait.

6. When did the Soviets attack bin Laden's camp at Jaji which established him as a warrior with Arab jihadists?
(a) October 1987.
(b) January 1987.
(c) April 1987.
(d) July 1987.

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

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

9. Like all students at the time while attending Kabul Polytechnic Institute, what did Massoud have a choice between?
(a) Leninism or radical Buddhism.
(b) Nazism or radical Judaism.
(c) Marxism or radical Hinduism.
(d) Communism or radical Islam.

10. What did Massoud's group protect?
(a) Solang Hospital.
(b) Solang Highway.
(c) Solang Valley.
(d) Solang Airport.

11. Yousef received jihad bomb training and participated in the attack where?
(a) U.S. embassy, Tehran.
(b) World Trade Center, New York.
(c) U.S. Marine barracks, Beirut.
(d) Afghan capitol building, Kabul.

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

13. It was decided to treat terrorists as criminals with no claims to political legitimacy, and which was selected as the lead agency in 1995?
(a) DIA.
(b) FBI.
(c) CIA.
(d) DIA.

14. When did riots in Islamabad and an attack on the U.S. embassy take place?
(a) 21 September 1979.
(b) 21 December 1979.
(c) 21 November 1979.
(d) 21 October 1979.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of the reports from Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia were treated how in Washington?

2. When was there a meeting in Moscow in which the Soviets decided to pull out of Afghanistan within a year or two?

3. Mir Amal Kasi was from a wealthy Pakistani family near Quetta who worked as a what?

4. What was seen as the biggest threat once the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan?

5. In what year did the Taliban form?

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