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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. Bin Laden had already formed the al-Qaeda and moved his family back to Saudi Arabia in what year?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990.

2. How frequently did Casey visit the Saudis and Pakistanis?
(a) Many times.
(b) Never.
(c) Several times.
(d) Only once.

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

4. Bin Laden was sponsoring jihad in Communist Yemen and opposed the Saudi government when they allowed American troops in to liberate which nation?
(a) Oman.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Kuwait.
(d) Iraq.

5. Gary Schroen, a CIA agent, met with Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was what?
(a) Former Afghan defense minister.
(b) Former Afghan president.
(c) Current Afghan president.
(d) Current Afghan defense minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the treaty for the Soviet withdrawal signed in Geneva?

2. Abdullah Azzam moved to Peshawar from Islamabad in 1984 and founded what to raise money?

3. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?

4. By what time had bin Laden moved to Peshawar?

5. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?

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

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

4. How was Paul Pillar described when he arrived at the Counterterrorist Center in Chapter 14?

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

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

7. Where were Schroen's assignments in the decade subsequent to the embassy riots in Islamabad in 1979?

8. What were some of the elements of Michael Pillsbury's goal in Afghanistan?

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

10. 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?

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