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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. Who was the CIA chief selected when the Bill Clinton administration took office?
(a) James Woolsey.
(b) John Deutch.
(c) Robert Gates.
(d) Edmund McWilliams.

2. In Chapter 10, whose views in the Department of State ran counter to those of the CIA at Langley?
(a) Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth.
(b) William Milam.
(c) Madeleine Albright.
(d) Edmund McWilliams.

3. Like all students at the time while attending Kabul Polytechnic Institute, what did Massoud have a choice between?
(a) Leninism or radical Buddhism.
(b) Marxism or radical Hinduism.
(c) Nazism or radical Judaism.
(d) Communism or radical Islam.

4. By what time had bin Laden moved to Peshawar?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1986.

5. What group did Massoud join while at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?
(a) Jihad Youth Organization.
(b) Hitler Youth Organization.
(c) Marxist Youth Organization.
(d) Muslim Youth Organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mir Amal Kasi was from a wealthy Pakistani family near Quetta who worked as a what?

2. Saudi intelligence used what type of charities to funnel money to Afghanistan?

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

4. The CIA and ISI planned another offensive to build the strength of Massoud and other rebel leaders that called for them to take Kabul in which winter?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Abdul Haq introduced?

2. How did Robert Gates view Bill Clinton when he flew to meet the president-elect?

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. How were the Panjshiris seen by 1994?

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

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

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

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