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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. Six weeks after Massoud took Kabul, what was first on a list of strict rules imposed by religious police?
(a) Taxis must not stop for women without full burqa.
(b) Women washing clothes in a river were sent home.
(c) Unmarried females could not appear in public alone.
(d) Tailors displaying fashion magazines were jailed.

2. By fall of 1998, who seemed an ideal CIA partner at the Pentagon given his extensive Special Forces experience?
(a) General Shelton Hughes.
(b) General Hugo Sheraton.
(c) General Hugh Sheldon.
(d) General Hugh Shelton.

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

4. In addition to the Zawhar Kili camp, the U.S. used missiles where?
(a) Terrorist camp complexes in northern Afghanistan.
(b) Bin Laden properties in the Sudan.
(c) Terrorist camp complexes in western Pakistan.
(d) Terrorist camp complexes in northern Pakistan.

5. Equipment the CIA outfitted the Afghan tribal fighters with to use in their search for Kasi included what?
(a) Tracking, locating equipment that used satellites.
(b) Infrared electromagnetic spectrum for wireless communications.
(c) Heat-seeking, tracking equipment that used radar.
(d) Infrared night-vision goggles.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Massoud was cornered in northern Afghanistan, what was the result of his requests for aid?

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

3. In 1997 intelligence agents learned of assassination plots against which target?

4. Which nation did not meet multilateral lending requirements for the pipeline at that time?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How had the U.S. intelligence arms switched their focus by 1998?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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