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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. What term did Paul Pillar, a chief analyst at the CIA Counterterrorist Center, use when he described individuals like Yousef?

2. Not long after they formed, the Taliban captured what city?

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

4. When did the Soviets attack bin Laden's camp at Jaji which established him as a warrior with Arab jihadists?

5. How frequently did Casey visit the Saudis and Pakistanis?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was Paul Pillar described when he arrived at the Counterterrorist Center in Chapter 14?

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

4. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

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

6. How was Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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

How did the Hamburg cell evolve?

Essay Topic 3

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

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