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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. When did the Soviets invade Afghanistan with their goal to kill the Afghan leader, Hafizullah Amin, and install a new communist regime?
(a) December 1979.
(b) March 1979.
(c) July 1979.
(d) January 1979.

2. What did Massoud's group protect?
(a) Solang Airport.
(b) Solang Valley.
(c) Solang Highway.
(d) Solang Hospital.

3. When was there a meeting in Moscow in which the Soviets decided to pull out of Afghanistan within a year or two?
(a) 31 May 1987.
(b) 13 November 1986.
(c) 21 March 1987.
(d) 12 January 1987.

4. Abdullah Azzam moved to Peshawar from Islamabad in 1984 and founded what to raise money?
(a) Agency of Services.
(b) Office of Services.
(c) Office of Tour Services.
(d) Travel Services Office.

5. Hart also met regularly with Akhtar due Rahman, who directed the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence agency known as what?
(a) Inter-Services Intelligence.
(b) Inter-Secret Intelligence.
(c) Intra-Services Intelligence.
(d) Intro-Services Intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was President Zia killed?

2. What group did Massoud join while at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?

3. Chapter 12 revealed what about the State Department and CIA in 1991?

4. To what did the Saudis view the Soviet invasion as a threat?

5. What term did Paul Pillar, a chief analyst at the CIA Counterterrorist Center, use when he described individuals like Yousef?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the CIA Islamabad station hold a cautious view of Massoud as related in Chapter 8?

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

3. What weapons systems did the CIA Afghan program provide in late 1985?

4. Why did Schroen roll the jeep into the lake at the end of Chapter 1?

5. 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?

6. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

7. How were the rebels trained to clear Soviet-laid minefields around Jalalabad?

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

9. How did the Soviets view the war in Afghanistan initially?

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

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