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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Economic sanctions were imposed by the U.S. against which nation in 1993 because of government-sponsored terrorism?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) Syria.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Egypt.

2. Who was the Afghan bureau chief for the ISI from 1983-1987?
(a) Kuwaja Ziauddin.
(b) Asad Durrani.
(c) Naseem Rana.
(d) Mohammed Yousaf.

3. By the mid-1980s, the Afghan rebels were staging attacks within what borders?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Soviet Union.
(d) Romania.

4. 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) Surface-to-air missiles.
(c) Vehicle bombings.
(d) Commando raids.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Such attacks continued world-wide and U.S. intelligence saw a new terrorist generation had emerged by what point?

2. In what year did the Taliban form?

3. When did riots in Islamabad and an attack on the U.S. embassy take place?

4. When was the CIA's Counterterrorist Center formed?

5. The CIA and ISI planned another offensive to build the strength of Massoud and other rebel leaders that called for them to take Kabul in which winter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ahmed Badeeb sneak through Pakistani customs with over $1.8 million in U.S. cash?

2. Why did Ahmed Shah Massoud join the Muslim Youth Organization while he was a student at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?

3. What were the major concerns of the U.S. embassy at Kabul in early 1988?

4. From which stations did the CIA maintain the greatest amount of detailed intelligence collected regarding Middle Eastern radical Islamic movements during the early 1990s?

5. What were some of Benazir Bhutto's goals when elected for a second term as Pakistan's prime minister?

6. In the opening of Chapter 5, what did CIA director William Casey relay to President Ronald Reagan in January 1984?

7. How was it, as related in Chapter 9, that the Pakistani ISI allied with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a means of isolating and defeating rival commanders about Kabul?

8. How had the city of Peshawar evolved by late 1986?

9. What was their response when Tomsen sought Saudi funding to reinforce his alternative "shura" composed of independent rebel Afghan commanders outside ISI control, but where Massoud held a strong role within the movement?

10. How did Haq's relationship with the CIA begin?

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