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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 was the new U.S. plan for covert war in Afghanistan known as?
2. The CIA-sponsored rebels were facing what type of constant Soviet attacks in 1986?
3. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?
4. Hamid Gul was Director-General of the ISI during what period?
5. Bin Laden had already formed the al-Qaeda and moved his family back to Saudi Arabia in what year?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was Abdul Haq introduced?
2. 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?
3. In the opening of Chapter 5, what did CIA director William Casey relay to President Ronald Reagan in January 1984?
4. Where were Schroen's assignments in the decade subsequent to the embassy riots in Islamabad in 1979?
5. 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?
6. How was Paul Pillar described when he arrived at the Counterterrorist Center in Chapter 14?
7. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?
8. How had the city of Peshawar evolved by late 1986?
9. How did the 1994 assassination attempt on bin Laden transpire?
10. What were some of Benazir Bhutto's goals when elected for a second term as Pakistan's prime minister?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What was noteworthy about the use of Predator reconnaissance drones?
Essay Topic 2
How did the Central Intelligence Agency shape the jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s?
Essay Topic 3
The book's title specifies the span of time in which the Ghost Wars transpired, but who were the ghosts and what were these conflicts referenced?
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