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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 was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?
(a) June 1985.
(b) August 1988.
(c) October 1986.
(d) December 1987.

2. The CIA-sponsored rebels were facing what type of constant Soviet attacks in 1986?
(a) Helicopter.
(b) Mortar.
(c) Missile.
(d) Tank.

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

4. Since Pakistan was close to having nuclear capability, American aid ended under what law?
(a) Baker Amendment.
(b) Pressler Amendment.
(c) Reagan Amendment.
(d) Pixler Amendment.

5. What was seen as the biggest threat once the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan?
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Radical Islam.
(c) Dictatorship.
(d) Nuclear capability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action did Massoud take when the Soviets planned to attack the Panjshir Valley?

2. The author identified which rebel as the one the Saudis viewed as most important?

3. The CIA fed what to Massoud's organization during the war with the Soviet Union?

4. In Chapter 10, whose views in the Department of State ran counter to those of the CIA at Langley?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What joke quickly circulated about James Woolsey, the CIA director, being unable to get an appointment with Clinton?

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

7. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

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

9. How did the 1994 assassination attempt on bin Laden transpire?

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

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