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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. Schroen said the U.S., which left Afghanistan when the Soviet Union dissolved, would return for what reason?
(a) Civil war.
(b) Religious conflict.
(c) Terrorism.
(d) Political unrest.

2. By 1996, Massoud's popularity stood where?
(a) Gone.
(b) Waning.
(c) Stable.
(d) Increasing.

3. By the mid-1980s, the Afghan rebels were staging attacks within what borders?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Romania.
(d) Soviet Union.

4. Such attacks continued world-wide and U.S. intelligence saw a new terrorist generation had emerged by what point?
(a) Mid-1995.
(b) Mid-1997.
(c) Late 1996.
(d) Early 1996.

5. In Chapter Five, what did CIA director William Casey advise President Ronald Reagan about their Afghanistan campaign?
(a) It had been successful.
(b) It had failed.
(c) It was not yet finished.
(d) It had been partially successful.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was President Zia killed?

2. Yousef received jihad bomb training and participated in the attack where?

3. Where was Ramzi Yousef born where but his family fled during the Iraq invasion?

4. Bin Laden was sponsoring jihad in Communist Yemen and opposed the Saudi government when they allowed American troops in to liberate which nation?

5. The CIA-sponsored rebels were facing what type of constant Soviet attacks in 1986?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

4. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

5. How was Abdul Haq introduced?

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

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

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

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

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

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