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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. Where did the Hamburg cell, as it was known, coalesce?
(a) A shabby mosque.
(b) A shabby hotel room.
(c) A gymnasium back room.
(d) A coffee shop back room.

2. Richard Clarke's White House counterterrorist group usually pressed for what type of tactics against bin Laden?
(a) Most aggressive.
(b) Non-aggressive.
(c) Moderately aggressive.
(d) Least aggressive.

3. When Deutch quit as CIA director after merely 19 months, the president attempted to nominate which individual?
(a) Tony Lake.
(b) William Milam.
(c) Tom Simons.
(d) Tom Pickering.

4. The U.S. did not support Massoud but kept their contacts, as the official position would change if al-Qaeda attacked where?
(a) In South America.
(b) In the U.S.
(c) In Europe.
(d) In Canada.

5. In 2000, the White House counterterrorism head asked which acquaintance to address the bin Laden intelligence problem?
(a) Scott Frye.
(b) Charles Allen.
(c) Charles Alan.
(d) Christopher F. Allen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hamburg cell, which derived its name from the German city it met in, included which members?

2. Who met Mahmoud Ahmed in the spring of 2001 and advised Pakistan could do much more in the fight with bin Laden?

3. The CIA slowly composed an intricate map of which infrastructure made from photos and satellite imagery?

4. Plans were made for Ahmed to visit the U.S. when?

5. Government lawyers debated for months under what circumstances lethal force was legal and when it constituted what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the American ambassador to Pakistan in 1996 believe that nation would evolve?

2. Why was it the CIA's working idea to attempt to keep bin Laden outside "KKJ"?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What took place in the Oval Office meeting on 2 December 1998 in the early afternoon?

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

10. What role had Tom Pickering assumed under Clinton?

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