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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. In what year did CIA agent Howard Hart become the station chief in Islamabad?

2. While he received money and supplies through the CIA without the Pakistanis knowing it, Massoud had no contact with the CIA during what decade because of the CIA agreement with Pakistan?

3. The war in Afghanistan cost the Soviet Union how many billion dollars?

4. Who was the new Department of State special envoy to the Afghan resistance that served from 1989-1992?

5. How was President Zia killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

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

3. What was their response when Tomsen sought Saudi funding to reinforce his alternative "shura" composed of independent rebel Afghan commanders outside ISI control, but where Massoud held a strong role within the movement?

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

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

6. How did Robert Gates view Bill Clinton when he flew to meet the president-elect?

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

8. How were the Panjshiris seen by 1994?

9. How did the 1994 assassination attempt on bin Laden transpire?

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

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

What was the significance when the CIA re-established contact with Ahmed Shah Massoud in September 1996?

Essay Topic 3

What were the methods and means employed by this CIA to disrupt, capture, and kill Osama bin Laden subsequent to his return to Afghanistan in the late 1990s?

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