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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which nation agreed Predator drones could be flown from one of its air bases while controlled from Langley?
(a) Tajikistan.
(b) Turkmenistan.
(c) Kazakhstan.
(d) Uzbekistan.

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

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

4. 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 opposition in Africa and Asia.
(b) Raise opposition in international community.
(c) Raise bin Laden's stature in Islamic world.
(d) Raise opposition in Europe.

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

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

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

8. Government lawyers debated for months under what circumstances lethal force was legal and when it constituted what?
(a) War.
(b) National security.
(c) Defense.
(d) Assassination.

9. In 1996, the CIA was attempting to recover Stinger missiles but encountered what problem with the Taliban?
(a) They demanded too high a price.
(b) They would sell back only damaged ones.
(c) They claimed they had none.
(d) They would not sell back the ones they had.

10. The Hamburg cell, which derived its name from the German city it met in, included which members?
(a) Mohammed Atta, Ramzai Binalshibh, Ziad Jarrah, Marwan al-Shehhi.
(b) Mohammed Atta, Ramzai Binalshibh, Ziad Jarrah, Hamid Karzai.
(c) Mohammed Atta, Hallaladin Haqqanni, Ziad Jarrah, Marwan al-Shehhi.
(d) Mohammed Atef, Ramzai Binalshibh, Ziad Jarrah, Marwan al-Shehhi.

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

12. Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri travelled by what means?
(a) Luxury SUVs.
(b) Camels.
(c) 4x4s marked as ambulances.
(d) Small passenger helicopters.

13. When Deutch quit as CIA director after merely 19 months, the president attempted to nominate which individual?
(a) William Milam.
(b) Tom Simons.
(c) Tony Lake.
(d) Tom Pickering.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Coll describe the relationship between Black and Pillar?

3. Bin Laden practiced operational security that was intensive and he was cautious of what?

4. Six weeks after Massoud took Kabul, what was first on a list of strict rules imposed by religious police?

5. The CIA slowly composed an intricate map of which infrastructure made from photos and satellite imagery?

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