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

2. How did Tenet view terrorism in terms of the level of threat it represented to the U.S. and the world?
(a) Declining.
(b) Out of control.
(c) Growing.
(d) Steady, but contained.

3. Since the equipment was already in place, the CIA decided to use it for whose capture?
(a) Massoud Khalili.
(b) Ahmed Shah Massoud.
(c) Osama bin Laden.
(d) Mullah Mohammed Omar.

4. When Ziauddin fell from power, which CIA branch lost an ally?
(a) Northern Asia.
(b) Western Asia.
(c) Central Asia.
(d) South Asia.

5. 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) Received major injury in the attack.
(c) Escaped injury in the attack.
(d) Not there in the attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. The CIA suspected Pakistani intelligence worked with bin Laden and trained recruits to fight where?

2. Which two al-Qaeda operatives arrested around the 2000 New Year planned to carry out terrorist attacks?

3. The CIA prevented surprise attacks through analysis of information they distributed in reports to avoid what?

4. On 7 August 1998 a devastating terrorist attack against U.S. embassies took place in which two African capitals?

5. Where did the Hamburg cell, as it was known, coalesce?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were Clarke and his counter-terrorism group at the White House frustrated by late spring in 2000?

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

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

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

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

6. Why was autumn in 1999 rough for managers at the Counterterrorist Center who were reporting possible terrorist threats?

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

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

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

10. How was the Afghan war changing by 1999?

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