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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Taliban leaders met with Saudi intelligence as they had to learn how to form and operate what?
(a) Islamic government.
(b) Taliban intelligence unit.
(c) Financial gathering operations.
(d) Rebel commando units.

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

3. The ISI began to supply the Taliban in 1995, which soon controlled what region?
(a) Northern Yemen.
(b) Southern Afghanistan.
(c) Southern Pakistan.
(d) Northern Iraq.

4. Egyptian Sheikh Rahman suffered from what physical disability?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Mute.
(d) Deafness.

5. Bin Laden had already formed the al-Qaeda and moved his family back to Saudi Arabia in what year?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1987.

6. Gary Schroen, a CIA agent, met with Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was what?
(a) Current Afghan president.
(b) Current Afghan defense minister.
(c) Former Afghan president.
(d) Former Afghan defense minister.

7. How was President Zia killed?
(a) Plane crash.
(b) Bomb explosion.
(c) Commando raid.
(d) Heart attack.

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

9. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?
(a) Bike riding.
(b) Flower gardening.
(c) Flying to the United Nations.
(d) Hospitalized.

10. 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) December 1979.
(c) July 1979.
(d) January 1979.

11. In 1993. the CIA was warned by the State Department envoy in Central Asia that the policy of allowing the Afghans to find their own solution achieved what?
(a) Moderate success.
(b) Minimal success.
(c) Failure.
(d) Significant success.

12. According to Chapter 10, where did Jallaladin Haqqanni operate near and test weapons and equipment for the CIA?
(a) Hawk's Beak.
(b) Eagle's Beak.
(c) Parrot's Beak.
(d) Pelican's Beak.

13. Schroen said the U.S., which left Afghanistan when the Soviet Union dissolved, would return for what reason?
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Religious conflict.
(c) Political unrest.
(d) Civil war.

14. What group did Massoud join while at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?
(a) Marxist Youth Organization.
(b) Hitler Youth Organization.
(c) Muslim Youth Organization.
(d) Jihad Youth Organization.

15. Where was a champagne party held when the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan?
(a) MI6 headquarters.
(b) CIA headquarters.
(c) KGB headquarters.
(d) ISI headquarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the new Department of State special envoy to the Afghan resistance that served from 1989-1992?

2. Many of the Kandahar Durranis were living where in exile in 1994?

3. Massoud was a top target for the Soviets because his group used and repaired captured weapons and equipment against which nationality?

4. Economic sanctions were imposed by the U.S. against which nation in 1993 because of government-sponsored terrorism?

5. Abdullah Azzam moved to Peshawar from Islamabad in 1984 and founded what to raise money?

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