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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. Unocal wanted to build a pipeline from what location through Kandahar to Pakistan?
(a) Tajikistan.
(b) Kazakhstan.
(c) Uzbekistan.
(d) Turkmenistan.

2. On 7 August 1998 a devastating terrorist attack against U.S. embassies took place in which two African capitals?
(a) Cairo, Rabat.
(b) Cairo, Dar es Salaam.
(c) Nairobi, Dar es Salaam.
(d) Nairobi, Rabat.

3. In what year was Bhutto ousted from office and Nawaz Sharif became prime minister?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1997

4. Who was the White House national security adviser between 1993 and 1997?
(a) Richard Clarke.
(b) Samuel L. "Sandy" Berger.
(c) Zbigniew Brzezinski.
(d) Anthony "Tony" Lake.

5. The U.S. was to accept severe social regulations imposed by the Taliban for what reason?
(a) Regulations were founded on religious Islamic law.
(b) Islamic laws were likely to be overthrown.
(c) Regulations resulted in peace for most of the country.
(d) U.S. had no authority on Islamic law imposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the ISI head from 1998 to 1999?

2. Sudan was told the Khartoum embassy would close given their terrorist support, but what was one step it could take?

3. By early 1999, Tenet was certain that bin Laden would be capable of striking the U.S. at what point?

4. Massoud's group was suspicious of the U.S. and its relationship to the Taliban, but who was his one CIA link?

5. The CIA's Counterterrorist Center established a new office dedicated to bin Laden in what year?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was George J. Tenet in various ways an unlikely candidate capable of repairing the breach between the CIA and Clinton?

3. What were some of the calculations the CIA's Counterterrorism Center had made regarding al Qaeda by late 1999?

4. How was Unocal introduced?

5. How had persistent Feminist Majority lobbying in opposition to the Taliban influenced the two most significant women in Clinton's administration?

6. How did Prince Turki view the threat bin Laden posed?

7. Why was Nawaz Sharif in fear of his army?

8. What role had Tom Pickering assumed under Clinton?

9. Why did Schroen encounter difficulty recovering CIA Stinger missiles from the Taliban?

10. How did John Deutch become the CIA chief?

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