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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. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?
(a) Bike riding.
(b) Flying to the United Nations.
(c) Flower gardening.
(d) Hospitalized.

2. Who became the CIA station chief in Islamabad in July 1986?
(a) Howard Hart.
(b) Frank Anderson.
(c) Duane R. "Dewey" Clarridge.
(d) Milton Bearden.

3. 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.

4. What transpired in November 1989 that meant Afghan President Najibullah was no longer part of a world Communist movement?
(a) State Department call for a successor to him.
(b) Soviet decision to pull out of Afghanistan.
(c) Tiananmen Square protests.
(d) Fall of the Berlin Wall.

5. What term did Paul Pillar, a chief analyst at the CIA Counterterrorist Center, use when he described individuals like Yousef?
(a) "Ad hoc terrorists."
(b) "Cowboy terrorists."
(c) "Tinkertoy terrorists."
(d) "Rental terrorists."

Short Answer Questions

1. How was President Zia killed?

2. The Taliban was initiated with which individual as its leader?

3. When was there a meeting in Moscow in which the Soviets decided to pull out of Afghanistan within a year or two?

4. Who was the Afghan bureau chief for the ISI from 1983-1987?

5. The Taliban leaders met with Saudi intelligence as they had to learn how to form and operate what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How were the Panjshiris seen by 1994?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. How was Abdul Haq introduced?

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

10. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

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