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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. Uzbekistan, which is bordered to the south by Afghanistan, was ruled by which individual in 1999?
(a) Massoud Khalili.
(b) Amrullah Saleh.
(c) Hamid Karzai.
(d) Islam Karimov.

2. Some of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombers belong to al-Qaeda sleeper cells in Africa, and all were trained where?
(a) Iran.
(b) Yemen.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) Pakistan.

3. Terrorists met at the Zawhar Kili camp that the U.S. attacked with Tomahawk missiles resulting in what to bin Laden?
(a) Received minor injury in the attack.
(b) Escaped injury in the attack.
(c) Not there in the attack.
(d) Received major injury in the attack.

4. Unocal sent which two individuals to negotiate the pipeline?
(a) John Imle, Sandy Berger.
(b) Marty Miller, John Imle.
(c) Tony Lake, Marty Miller.
(d) Sandy Berger, Tony Lake.

5. Bin Laden practiced operational security that was intensive and he was cautious of what?
(a) Radio communication.
(b) Computers.
(c) Couriers.
(d) Telephones.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bush becomes the President, what was one of the initial changes made at the CIA?

2. Views differ on what was said, but instead of Saudis, Sudanese spoke with bin Laden and he moved where?

3. A commando raid on bin Laden was not pursued because it was thought that a failed attack with civilian casualties would yield what?

4. Massoud felt he had recovered some political and military momentum in opposition to the Taliban by what point?

5. Pakistan recognized the Taliban as its government without Sharif knowing, and days later the Taliban was expelled from where?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Taliban take their final major prize taken in northern Afghanistan?

2. How did John Deutch become the CIA chief?

3. How did the "bin Laden Issue Station" evolve?

4. How was Clinton's visit to Pakistan among the strangest that presidential history has to offer?

5. What plan was agreed to between Pakistani intelligence director Naseem Rana and CIA station chief Schroen regarding the capture of Mir Amal Kasi?

6. What support did CIA field operatives reportedly seek from the White House team of Richard Clarke?

7. What position did U.S. government Afghan specialist Zalmay Khalilzad take shortly following the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban?

8. How was bin Laden described as having viewed himself in Chapter 21?

9. How was the Afghan war changing by 1999?

10. By early 1999, what was Tenet's view about the possibility bin Laden might again attack America?

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