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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hamid Gul was Director-General of the ISI during what period?

2. The Taliban leaders met with Saudi intelligence as they had to learn how to form and operate what?

3. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?

4. Gary Schroen, a CIA agent, met with Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was what?

5. Since Pakistan was close to having nuclear capability, American aid ended under what law?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Abdul Haq introduced?

2. How had the city of Peshawar evolved by late 1986?

3. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

4. Where were Schroen's assignments in the decade subsequent to the embassy riots in Islamabad in 1979?

5. Why did Ahmed Shah Massoud join the Muslim Youth Organization while he was a student at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?

6. What joke quickly circulated about James Woolsey, the CIA director, being unable to get an appointment with Clinton?

7. How was Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?

8. Why did the CIA Islamabad station hold a cautious view of Massoud as related in Chapter 8?

9. How did Peter Tomsen's role differ when he took over the position Ed McWilliams held in late 1989?

10. What weapons systems did the CIA Afghan program provide in late 1985?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the title of Chapter 17, "Dangling the Carrot," in reference to? Why did Unocal's Marty Miller get out of his truck when it crossed into Pakistan at the conclusion of the chapter, kiss the ground, then do a little jig?

Essay Topic 2

What was Cull referring to in Chapter 7 when he quoted Frank Anderson as having said, "The Reagan administration had attracted to Washington 'an awful lot of Soldier of Fortune readers'"?

Essay Topic 3

How did the Hamburg cell evolve?

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