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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. Cofer Black became the CIA station chief in which capital city in 1993?

2. After he was attacked by the Soviets at Jaji, bin Laden met Aymen al-Zawahiri, preached global jihad, and initiated what sort of campaign?

3. The ISI Afghan operations director's plans to cut Soviet supply lines were frustrated when Afghan rebels refused to take part in suicide missions for what reason?

4. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?

5. The author identified which rebel as the one the Saudis viewed as most important?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Khartoum a popular place for energetic CIA case officers to get assigned?

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

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

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

5. How did Ahmed Badeeb sneak through Pakistani customs with over $1.8 million in U.S. cash?

6. 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?

7. How did the Soviets view the war in Afghanistan initially?

8. How did Haq's relationship with the CIA begin?

9. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

10. How were the Panjshiris seen by 1994?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Why did the Saudis view Abdurrab Rasul Sayyaf as the most important rebel during the war with the Soviets?

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