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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. The ISI began to supply the Taliban in 1995, which soon controlled what region?
(a) Northern Yemen.
(b) Southern Afghanistan.
(c) Northern Iraq.
(d) Southern Pakistan.

2. After he was attacked by the Soviets at Jaji, bin Laden met Aymen al-Zawahiri, preached global jihad, and initiated what sort of campaign?
(a) Media.
(b) Surface-to-air missiles.
(c) Vehicle bombings.
(d) Commando raids.

3. Where did Massoud live from the age of 11?
(a) Riyadh.
(b) Tehran.
(c) Islamabad.
(d) Kabul.

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

5. 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) Fall of the Berlin Wall.
(c) Tiananmen Square protests.
(d) Soviet decision to pull out of Afghanistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the CIA chief selected when the Bill Clinton administration took office?

2. When did the Soviets attack bin Laden's camp at Jaji which established him as a warrior with Arab jihadists?

3. How was President Zia killed?

4. When did riots in Islamabad and an attack on the U.S. embassy take place?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Khartoum a popular place for energetic CIA case officers to get assigned?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What were some of the elements of Michael Pillsbury's goal in Afghanistan?

10. 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?

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