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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. When did the Islamic opposition revolt against the established communist Russian government in Herat, Afghanistan?
2. When did the Soviets attack bin Laden's camp at Jaji which established him as a warrior with Arab jihadists?
3. 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?
4. What transpired in November 1989 that meant Afghan President Najibullah was no longer part of a world Communist movement?
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 Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?
2. In the opening of Chapter 5, what did CIA director William Casey relay to President Ronald Reagan in January 1984?
3. What were some of Benazir Bhutto's goals when elected for a second term as Pakistan's prime minister?
4. Why did the CIA Islamabad station hold a cautious view of Massoud as related in Chapter 8?
5. How were the rebels trained to clear Soviet-laid minefields around Jalalabad?
6. What were some of the elements of Michael Pillsbury's goal in Afghanistan?
7. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?
8. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?
9. What joke quickly circulated about James Woolsey, the CIA director, being unable to get an appointment with Clinton?
10. Where were Schroen's assignments in the decade subsequent to the embassy riots in Islamabad in 1979?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What prompted Arab men to follow Cofer Black toward the end of his tour in Khartoum? What was the outcome?
Essay Topic 2
How has bin Laden's security consciousness hindered the CIA goal of capturing or killing him?
Essay Topic 3
How did the Hamburg cell evolve?
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