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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. Not long after they formed, the Taliban captured what city?
(a) Karachi.
(b) Khartoum.
(c) Kandahar.
(d) Khakassia.

2. In what year did CIA agent Howard Hart become the station chief in Islamabad?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1979.

3. Hamid Gul was Director-General of the ISI during what period?
(a) 1990-1992.
(b) 1983-1987.
(c) 1987-1989.
(d) 1978-1987.

4. In Chapter Five, what did CIA director William Casey advise President Ronald Reagan about their Afghanistan campaign?
(a) It had been partially successful.
(b) It had been successful.
(c) It was not yet finished.
(d) It had failed.

5. The ISI Afghan operations director's plans to cut Soviet supply lines were frustrated when Afghan rebels refused to take part in suicide missions for what reason?
(a) They could not infiltrate Soviet lines.
(b) It presented unnecessary risk to civilians.
(c) It was against their religious beliefs.
(d) It was an inhumane method of warfare.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1996, Massoud's popularity stood where?

2. The CIA did not favor the use of Stingers because they could be used by terrorists against what?

3. The new National Security Decision Directive in 1985 made it harder to keep CIA involvement secret and there was concern the Soviets would retaliate against what nations?

4. While he received money and supplies through the CIA without the Pakistanis knowing it, Massoud had no contact with the CIA during what decade because of the CIA agreement with Pakistan?

5. By the mid-1980s, the Afghan rebels were staging attacks within what borders?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Peter Tomsen's role differ when he took over the position Ed McWilliams held in late 1989?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How was Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?

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