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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the foreign oil representatives arrived in Afghanistan, why would Mullah Omar not meet with them?
(a) They were not Muslims.
(b) They did not have full beards.
(c) They were not Taliban.
(d) They were not Afghans.

2. Uzbekistan, which is bordered to the south by Afghanistan, was ruled by which individual in 1999?
(a) Islam Karimov.
(b) Massoud Khalili.
(c) Hamid Karzai.
(d) Amrullah Saleh.

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

4. In 2000, the White House counterterrorism head asked which acquaintance to address the bin Laden intelligence problem?
(a) Scott Frye.
(b) Christopher F. Allen.
(c) Charles Allen.
(d) Charles Alan.

5. Massoud had gained strength in new arms deals and felt that the Taliban had weakened as he rebuilt what?
(a) Northern Alliance.
(b) Western Alliance.
(c) Southern Alliance.
(d) Eastern Alliance.

6. On 7 August 1998 a devastating terrorist attack against U.S. embassies took place in which two African capitals?
(a) Cairo, Rabat.
(b) Nairobi, Dar es Salaam.
(c) Cairo, Dar es Salaam.
(d) Nairobi, Rabat.

7. One report received was a plot against Massoud that involved an assassin dispatched to place what in his shoes?
(a) Boron nitride.
(b) Acetylsalicylic acid.
(c) Antacid.
(d) Anthrax.

8. What was the response to information provided by Pillar's Counterterrorist Center?
(a) Recipients complained information was outdated.
(b) Recipients praised the information volume and speed.
(c) Recipients complained volume was too little.
(d) Recipients complained volume was too much.

9. How many casualties resulted in these two U.S. embassy attacks in Africa?
(a) Over 150 killed, over 600 injured.
(b) Over 200 killed, over 4,000 injured.
(c) Over 100 killed, over 450 injured.
(d) Over 300 killed, over 1,500 injured.

10. In each case that the Clinton Cabinet considered cruise missile strikes, what was a decisive problem?
(a) Uncertainty of number of civilian deaths.
(b) Conflict against terrorism not a declared war.
(c) Absolute certainty as to bin Laden's location.
(d) Potential collateral damage.

11. Some of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombers belong to al-Qaeda sleeper cells in Africa, and all were trained where?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Yemen.
(d) Iran.

12. How did the author describe Clinton's view of the CIA as an institution?
(a) "Trusting."
(b) "Skeptical."
(c) "Non-accepting"
(d) "Accepting."

13. The CIA slowly composed an intricate map of which infrastructure made from photos and satellite imagery?
(a) Bin Laden's Pakistani.
(b) Bin Laden's Saudi.
(c) Bin Laden's Afghani.
(d) Bin Laden's Iranian.

14. By fall of 1998, who seemed an ideal CIA partner at the Pentagon given his extensive Special Forces experience?
(a) General Hugh Sheldon.
(b) General Shelton Hughes.
(c) General Hugo Sheraton.
(d) General Hugh Shelton.

15. The first CIA Northern Afghanistan Liaison Team (NALT-1) flew by what means from Dushanbe to the Panjshir Valley in 1997?
(a) U.S. Air Force helicopters.
(b) Massoud's helicopters.
(c) U.S. Army helicopters.
(d) U.S. Marine Corps helicopters.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ziauddin fell from power, which CIA branch lost an ally?

2. Argentine oilman Carlos Bulgheroni had the same idea as Unocal and had whose support?

3. By early 1999, Tenet was certain that bin Laden would be capable of striking the U.S. at what point?

4. In 1996, the CIA was attempting to recover Stinger missiles but encountered what problem with the Taliban?

5. The CIA and State Department issued what alert shortly after bin Laden helped publish a joint manifesto?

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