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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. Sudan was told the Khartoum embassy would close given their terrorist support, but what was one step it could take?
(a) Expel bin Laden to Saudi Arabia.
(b) Expel bin Laden to Romania.
(c) Expel bin Laden to Yemen.
(d) Provide information on bin Laden and his followers.

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

3. Who was the ISI head from 1998 to 1999?
(a) General Asad Durrani.
(b) General Khwaja Ziauddin.
(c) General Javed Ashraf Qazi.
(d) General Akhtar Abdur Rahman.

4. Massoud's group was suspicious of the U.S. and its relationship to the Taliban, but who was his one CIA link?
(a) Gary Schroen.
(b) Howard Hart.
(c) Milton Bearden.
(d) William Piekney.

5. Which nation did not meet multilateral lending requirements for the pipeline at that time?
(a) Tajikistan.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Turkmenistan.
(d) Kazakhstan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the White House national security adviser between 1993 and 1997?

2. In 1996, the CIA was attempting to recover Stinger missiles but encountered what problem with the Taliban?

3. A 1998 memorandum of notification signed by whom authorized CIA agents to use lethal force to capture bin Laden?

4. Bin Laden practiced operational security that was intensive and he was cautious of what?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did John Deutch become the CIA chief?

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

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

10. How was Unocal introduced?

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