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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. How frequently did Casey visit the Saudis and Pakistanis?

2. The CIA and ISI planned another offensive to build the strength of Massoud and other rebel leaders that called for them to take Kabul in which winter?

3. What was the new U.S. plan for covert war in Afghanistan known as?

4. Where did Massoud live from the age of 11?

5. Economic sanctions were imposed by the U.S. against which nation in 1993 because of government-sponsored terrorism?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was it, as related in Chapter 9, that the Pakistani ISI allied with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a means of isolating and defeating rival commanders about Kabul?

2. How were the rebels trained to clear Soviet-laid minefields around Jalalabad?

3. How were the Panjshiris seen by 1994?

4. What were some of the elements of Michael Pillsbury's goal in Afghanistan?

5. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

6. In the opening of Chapter 5, what did CIA director William Casey relay to President Ronald Reagan in January 1984?

7. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

8. What were some of Benazir Bhutto's goals when elected for a second term as Pakistan's prime minister?

9. What were the major concerns of the U.S. embassy at Kabul in early 1988?

10. How was Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Hamburg cell evolve?

Essay Topic 2

What was author Steve Coll referring to when he noted an adviser to Ahmed Shah Massoud recalled a roughly translated Afghan phrase that went, "'Your mouth cannot be sweet when you talk about honey; you must have honey in your mouth'"?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Pakistan become a far different setting in which to conduct covert action subsequent to the anti-Soviet jihad?

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