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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was there a meeting in Moscow in which the Soviets decided to pull out of Afghanistan within a year or two?
(a) 12 January 1987.
(b) 13 November 1986.
(c) 31 May 1987.
(d) 21 March 1987.

2. By the mid-1980s, the Afghan rebels were staging attacks within what borders?
(a) Soviet Union.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Romania.
(d) Ukraine.

3. Economic sanctions were imposed by the U.S. against which nation in 1993 because of government-sponsored terrorism?
(a) Syria.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

4. 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) 1990-1991.
(c) 1989-1990.
(d) 1987-1988.

5. Chapter 12 revealed what about the State Department and CIA in 1991?
(a) In open competition regarding change of Kabul government.
(b) In secret competition regarding change of Kabul government.
(c) In secret agreement regarding change of Kabul government.
(d) In open agreement regarding change of Kabul government.

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

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

8. There were how many direct contacts between a CIA officer and bin Laden in the 1980s?
(a) Only one.
(b) None.
(c) One in person and one by telephone.
(d) One in person and two by telephone.

9. What casualties resulted when Kasi fired upon employees as they entered the CIA headquarters on 23 January 1993?
(a) 5 killed, 3 wounded.
(b) 1 killed, 4 wounded.
(c) 2 killed, 3 wounded.
(d) 3 killed, 5 wounded.

10. In Chapter 10, whose views in the Department of State ran counter to those of the CIA at Langley?
(a) Edmund McWilliams.
(b) Madeleine Albright.
(c) William Milam.
(d) Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth.

11. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?
(a) June 1985.
(b) December 1987.
(c) August 1988.
(d) October 1986.

12. Not long after they formed, the Taliban captured what city?
(a) Karachi.
(b) Khakassia.
(c) Kandahar.
(d) Khartoum.

13. What action did Massoud take when the Soviets planned to attack the Panjshir Valley?
(a) Fled the valley.
(b) Assimilated into neighboring towns.
(c) Ordered it evacuated.
(d) Set up military defenses.

14. The war in Afghanistan cost the Soviet Union how many billion dollars?
(a) 16.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Since Pakistan was close to having nuclear capability, American aid ended under what law?

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

3. Benazir Bhutto told America it would bring peace to the nation, but did not tell them about aid to the Taliban from where?

4. When was the treaty for the Soviet withdrawal signed in Geneva?

5. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?

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