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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. Yosef and his associates also had plans to hijack a plane and crash it where?
(a) Pentagon.
(b) White House.
(c) U.N. headquarters.
(d) CIA headquarters.

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

3. The Taliban was initiated with which individual as its leader?
(a) Mohammed Yousaf.
(b) Mullah Mohammed Rabbani.
(c) Mullah Mohammed Omar.
(d) Mahmoud Ahmed.

4. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?
(a) August 1988.
(b) December 1987.
(c) June 1985.
(d) October 1986.

5. Yosef was brought back to the U.S. on what date where he told the FBI that he was inspired by certain leaders but refused to say who?
(a) 2 July 1994.
(b) 5 June 1993.
(c) 4 November 1996.
(d) 8 February 1995.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was there a meeting in Moscow in which the Soviets decided to pull out of Afghanistan within a year or two?

2. Bin Laden had already formed the al-Qaeda and moved his family back to Saudi Arabia in what year?

3. Massoud was a top target for the Soviets because his group used and repaired captured weapons and equipment against which nationality?

4. Many of the Kandahar Durranis were living where in exile in 1994?

5. By September 1994, which two nations stopped funding activities in Afghanistan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

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

3. Why did Ahmed Shah Massoud join the Muslim Youth Organization while he was a student at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?

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

5. How was Paul Pillar described when he arrived at the Counterterrorist Center in Chapter 14?

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

7. How were the Panjshiris seen by 1994?

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

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

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

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