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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. Schroen said the U.S., which left Afghanistan when the Soviet Union dissolved, would return for what reason?
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. Like all students at the time while attending Kabul Polytechnic Institute, what did Massoud have a choice between?
4. Saudi intelligence used what type of charities to funnel money to Afghanistan?
5. Where was Ramzi Yousef born where but his family fled during the Iraq invasion?
Short Essay Questions
1. What weapons systems did the CIA Afghan program provide in late 1985?
2. Where were Schroen's assignments in the decade subsequent to the embassy riots in Islamabad in 1979?
3. How did the Soviets view the war in Afghanistan initially?
4. How was Abdul Haq introduced?
5. Why did Schroen roll the jeep into the lake at the end of Chapter 1?
6. Why did the CIA Islamabad station hold a cautious view of Massoud as related in Chapter 8?
7. In the opening of Chapter 5, what did CIA director William Casey relay to President Ronald Reagan in January 1984?
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. Why was Khartoum a popular place for energetic CIA case officers to get assigned?
10. How had the city of Peshawar evolved by late 1986?
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 title of Chapter 17, "Dangling the Carrot," in reference to? Why did Unocal's Marty Miller get out of his truck when it crossed into Pakistan at the conclusion of the chapter, kiss the ground, then do a little jig?
Essay Topic 3
How has bin Laden's security consciousness hindered the CIA goal of capturing or killing him?
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