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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bush becomes the President, what was one of the initial changes made at the CIA?
(a) Obtain support for Massoud.
(b) Predator flights were resumed.
(c) Official position on Taliban changed.
(d) Official position on Afghanistan changed.

2. How did Coll describe the relationship between Black and Pillar?
(a) "Skeptical of each other's approach."
(b) "Not a natural partner."
(c) A tight and natural partner."
(d) Distrusting of each other."

3. Six weeks after Massoud took Kabul, what was first on a list of strict rules imposed by religious police?
(a) Taxis must not stop for women without full burqa.
(b) Women washing clothes in a river were sent home.
(c) Unmarried females could not appear in public alone.
(d) Tailors displaying fashion magazines were jailed.

4. When Ziauddin fell from power, which CIA branch lost an ally?
(a) Western Asia.
(b) South Asia.
(c) Central Asia.
(d) Northern Asia.

5. When did the Northern Alliance lose Taloqan to the Taliban?
(a) December 2000.
(b) September 2000.
(c) March 2000.
(d) June 2000.

6. Who met Mahmoud Ahmed in the spring of 2001 and advised Pakistan could do much more in the fight with bin Laden?
(a) Tenet.
(b) Bush.
(c) Black.
(d) Schroen.

7. By when had bin Laden moved his operations to the south to Kandahar?
(a) November 1996.
(b) November 1995.
(c) May 1996.
(d) May 1995.

8. 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 Hugo Sheraton.
(c) General Hugh Shelton.
(d) General Hugh Sheldon.

9. The CIA hired Afghan tribal fighters to find Kasi, who attacked Langley in 1993, and who is captured when?
(a) December 1997.
(b) 15 June 1997.
(c) 29 June 1998.
(d) 21 December 1996.

10. Where did the Hamburg cell, as it was known, coalesce?
(a) A shabby mosque.
(b) A gymnasium back room.
(c) A coffee shop back room.
(d) A shabby hotel room.

11. According to Chapter 19, what nations did Massoud engage in locating sponsors?
(a) Iran, Iraq.
(b) Iraq, Yemen.
(c) India, Yemen.
(d) India, Iran.

12. By early 1999, Tenet was certain that bin Laden would be capable of striking the U.S. at what point?
(a) Spring 2000.
(b) Summer 1999.
(c) Any time.
(d) Winter 1999.

13. The suicide bombing against the USS Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer, took place on 12 October 2000 in what port?
(a) Aden, Yemen.
(b) Beirut, Lebanon.
(c) Tripoli, Libya.
(d) Muscat, Oman.

14. Bin Laden practiced operational security that was intensive and he was cautious of what?
(a) Radio communication.
(b) Telephones.
(c) Couriers.
(d) Computers.

15. Marwan al-Shehhi told which librarian thousands would die at the World Trade Center, but he did not seem serious?
(a) Martha Schmidt.
(b) Heidi Pfennig.
(c) Lydia Himmler.
(d) Angela Duile.

Short Answer Questions

1. So this second prisoner would be kept alive, the tribe was to hold him in a cave for how long until Americans came?

2. Which nation did not meet multilateral lending requirements for the pipeline at that time?

3. Massoud had gained strength in new arms deals and felt that the Taliban had weakened as he rebuilt what?

4. Since the equipment was already in place, the CIA decided to use it for whose capture?

5. Who was the White House national security adviser between 1993 and 1997?

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