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

2. When did the Soviets invade Afghanistan with their goal to kill the Afghan leader, Hafizullah Amin, and install a new communist regime?
(a) March 1979.
(b) July 1979.
(c) January 1979.
(d) December 1979.

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

4. 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) It presented unnecessary risk to civilians.
(b) It was against their religious beliefs.
(c) They could not infiltrate Soviet lines.
(d) It was an inhumane method of warfare.

5. When was Bin Laden in Saudi Arabia to promote radical Islamic policies that irritated the government that he had to leave?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Taliban form?

2. 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?

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

4. Who was the new Department of State special envoy to the Afghan resistance that served from 1989-1992?

5. Many of the reports from Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia were treated how in Washington?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the rebels trained to clear Soviet-laid minefields around Jalalabad?

2. How was Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?

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

4. How were the Panjshiris seen by 1994?

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

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

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

8. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

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

10. 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?

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