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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) 1983.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1984.

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

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

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

5. 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 U-2.
(c) National Security Decision Directive Tight Fist.
(d) National Security Decision Directive 166.

6. Who was the CIA chief selected when the Bill Clinton administration took office?
(a) James Woolsey.
(b) John Deutch.
(c) Edmund McWilliams.
(d) Robert Gates.

7. Many of the reports from Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia were treated how in Washington?
(a) Probable.
(b) Required more study.
(c) Discounted.
(d) Accepted.

8. After he was attacked by the Soviets at Jaji, bin Laden met Aymen al-Zawahiri, preached global jihad, and initiated what sort of campaign?
(a) Media.
(b) Vehicle bombings.
(c) Commando raids.
(d) Surface-to-air missiles.

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

10. 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) Pelican's Beak.
(d) Parrot's Beak.

11. What city was a haven for noted radical Carlos the Jackal?
(a) Beirut.
(b) Karachi.
(c) Khartoum.
(d) Munich.

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

13. Who became the CIA station chief in Islamabad in July 1986?
(a) Frank Anderson.
(b) Howard Hart.
(c) Duane R. "Dewey" Clarridge.
(d) Milton Bearden.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The war in Afghanistan cost the Soviet Union how many billion dollars?

2. Chapter 12 revealed what about the State Department and CIA in 1991?

3. In Chapter Five, what did CIA director William Casey advise President Ronald Reagan about their Afghanistan campaign?

4. Hamid Gul was Director-General of the ISI during what period?

5. 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?

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