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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. The CIA's Counterterrorist Center established a new office dedicated to bin Laden in what year?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1998.

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

3. Where did U.S. ships and submarines with missiles wait to receive the coordinates of bin Laden's location?
(a) Caspian Sea.
(b) Aral Sea.
(c) Andaman Sea.
(d) Arabian Sea.

4. Some of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombers belong to al-Qaeda sleeper cells in Africa, and all were trained where?
(a) Yemen.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Iran.
(d) Pakistan.

5. When Massoud was cornered in northern Afghanistan, what was the result of his requests for aid?
(a) U.S. provided.
(b) Saudi Arabia provided.
(c) Saudi Arabia did not provide.
(d) U.S. did not provide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unocal sent which two individuals to negotiate the pipeline?

2. George Tenet became CIA director in what year?

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

4. So this second prisoner would be kept alive, the tribe was to hold him in a cave for how long until Americans came?

5. Unocal wanted to build a pipeline from what location through Kandahar to Pakistan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did John Deutch become the CIA chief?

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

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

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

9. What was the view of CIA staff members regarding Cofer Black's enthusiastic view for armed Predator drones?

10. What MiG fighter jet intercept mission of a CIA Predator drone was described in Chapter 29?

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