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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. According to Chapter 19, what nations did Massoud engage in locating sponsors?
(a) India, Yemen.
(b) Iraq, Yemen.
(c) Iran, Iraq.
(d) India, Iran.

2. What is the purpose of the CIA?
(a) Prevent surprise attacks.
(b) Ensure security of presidents and cabinet.
(c) Ensure the domestic security of U.S.
(d) Ensure the international security of U.S.

3. The first CIA Northern Afghanistan Liaison Team (NALT-1) flew by what means from Dushanbe to the Panjshir Valley in 1997?
(a) U.S. Marine Corps helicopters.
(b) U.S. Air Force helicopters.
(c) U.S. Army helicopters.
(d) Massoud's helicopters.

4. What was the response to information provided by Pillar's Counterterrorist Center?
(a) Recipients complained volume was too much.
(b) Recipients praised the information volume and speed.
(c) Recipients complained information was outdated.
(d) Recipients complained volume was too little.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many casualties resulted in these two U.S. embassy attacks in Africa?

2. Where did the CIA stand in regard to Black's enthusiasm in favor of armed drones?

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

4. Equipment the CIA outfitted the Afghan tribal fighters with to use in their search for Kasi included what?

5. Madeleine Albright and who else declared publicly multiple times the U.S. would align with no side in Afghan's war?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Prince Turki believe that bin Laden had fallen through the cracks?

3. How was Unocal introduced?

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

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

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

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

10. How was the Afghan war changing by 1999?

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