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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. What casualties resulted when Kasi fired upon employees as they entered the CIA headquarters on 23 January 1993?
(a) 1 killed, 4 wounded.
(b) 5 killed, 3 wounded.
(c) 3 killed, 5 wounded.
(d) 2 killed, 3 wounded.

2. 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?
(a) 2000s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1970s.

3. When was the CIA's Counterterrorist Center formed?
(a) 1 August 1991.
(b) 1 February 1986.
(c) 1 February 1990.
(d) 1 August 1988.

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?
(a) 1990-1991.
(b) 1987-1988.
(c) 1988-1989.
(d) 1989-1990.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?

2. When did the Soviets invade Afghanistan with their goal to kill the Afghan leader, Hafizullah Amin, and install a new communist regime?

3. Egyptian Sheikh Rahman suffered from what physical disability?

4. What was the new U.S. plan for covert war in Afghanistan known as?

5. In what year did CIA agent Howard Hart become the station chief in Islamabad?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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