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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. Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri travelled by what means?
(a) Luxury SUVs.
(b) Camels.
(c) Small passenger helicopters.
(d) 4x4s marked as ambulances.

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

3. How many casualties resulted in these two U.S. embassy attacks in Africa?
(a) Over 100 killed, over 450 injured.
(b) Over 300 killed, over 1,500 injured.
(c) Over 150 killed, over 600 injured.
(d) Over 200 killed, over 4,000 injured.

4. Who published a joint manifesto with bin Laden that declared the U.S. as the enemy in 1998?
(a) Mohammed Atef.
(b) Aburrashid Dostum.
(c) Abdullah Azzam.
(d) Ayman al-Zawahiri.

5. The CIA hired Afghan tribal fighters to find Kasi, who attacked Langley in 1993, and who is captured when?
(a) 15 June 1997.
(b) 29 June 1998.
(c) 21 December 1996.
(d) December 1997.

Short Answer Questions

1. When had the White House counterterrorist group grown frustrated with intelligence reports on bin Laden's whereabouts?

2. In what year was Bhutto ousted from office and Nawaz Sharif became prime minister?

3. Uzbekistan, which is bordered to the south by Afghanistan, was ruled by which individual in 1999?

4. Tenet's reform program for the CIA did what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was Unocal introduced?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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