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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. By what time had bin Laden moved to Peshawar?

2. Who was the CIA chief selected when the Bill Clinton administration took office?

3. Such attacks continued world-wide and U.S. intelligence saw a new terrorist generation had emerged by what point?

4. At what point was the CIA allowed to begin operations in Afghanistan using Zia's intelligence service as an intermediary?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Schroen roll the jeep into the lake at the end of Chapter 1?

3. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

4. 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?

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

6. How was Abdul Haq introduced?

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

8. What weapons systems did the CIA Afghan program provide in late 1985?

9. 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?

10. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What was the new secret two-track policy Peter Tomsen finalized toward the Afghan war subsequent to the Soviet troop withdrawal?

Essay Topic 3

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'"?

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