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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who headed the Pakistani army from 1998 to 1999?
(a) General Hamid Gulr.
(b) General Mahmoud Ahmed.
(c) General Pervez Musharraf.
(d) General Naseem Rana.

2. Tenet's reform program for the CIA did what?
(a) De-emphasized covert actions, intelligence gathering.
(b) De-emphasized covert actions, emphasized intelligence gathering.
(c) Emphasized covert actions, de-emphasized intelligence gathering.
(d) Emphasized both covert actions, intelligence gathering.

3. George Tenet became CIA director in what year?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1995.

4. In 1997 intelligence agents learned of assassination plots against which target?
(a) Ahmed Shah Massoud.
(b) Massoud Khalili.
(c) Mullah Mohammed Omar.
(d) Osama bin Laden.

5. Madeleine Albright and who else declared publicly multiple times the U.S. would align with no side in Afghan's war?
(a) Richard Clarke, Tom Simons.
(b) Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth, Tom Pickering.
(c) Tom Pickering, Tom Simons
(d) Richard Clarke, Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth.

6. Argentine oilman Carlos Bulgheroni had the same idea as Unocal and had whose support?
(a) King Fahd.
(b) King Faisal.
(c) Prince Bandar al-Faisal.
(d) Prince Turki al-Faisal.

7. The U.S. did not support Massoud but kept their contacts, as the official position would change if al-Qaeda attacked where?
(a) In Canada.
(b) In South America.
(c) In the U.S.
(d) In Europe.

8. A commando raid on bin Laden was not pursued because it was thought that a failed attack with civilian casualties would yield what?
(a) Raise bin Laden's stature in Islamic world.
(b) Raise opposition in Europe.
(c) Raise opposition in Africa and Asia.
(d) Raise opposition in international community.

9. How did those at Langley react when a Taliban Mig was monitored as it headed straight toward a Predator drone?
(a) They were silent for several minutes.
(b) Half ducked instinctively as it passed.
(c) Half stepped aside instinctively as it passed.
(d) Half looked away instinctively as it passed.

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

11. Tenet was frustrated by what attention the Clinton Cabinet provided the al Qaeda threat?
(a) "Too late."
(b) "Minimal."
(c) "On-and-off."
(d) "Ignored."

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

13. How did Tenet view terrorism in terms of the level of threat it represented to the U.S. and the world?
(a) Growing.
(b) Steady, but contained.
(c) Out of control.
(d) Declining.

14. Which two al-Qaeda operatives arrested around the 2000 New Year planned to carry out terrorist attacks?
(a) Abu Zubaydeh in Germany, Ahmed Ressan in San Francisco.
(b) Abu Zubaydeh in Syria, Ahmed Ressan in Miami.
(c) Abu Zubaydeh in Jordan, Ahmed Ressan in Washington state.
(d) Abu Zubaydeh in Kuwait, Ahmed Ressan in New York City.

15. 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) Unmarried females could not appear in public alone.
(c) Women washing clothes in a river were sent home.
(d) Tailors displaying fashion magazines were jailed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Massoud's group was suspicious of the U.S. and its relationship to the Taliban, but who was his one CIA link?

2. Shortly into 2000, the Counterterrorist Center picked up information that bin Laden had arrived in what location?

3. When had the White House counterterrorist group grown frustrated with intelligence reports on bin Laden's whereabouts?

4. The CIA hired Afghan tribal fighters to find Kasi, who attacked Langley in 1993, and who is captured when?

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

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