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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 Deutch quit as CIA director after merely 19 months, the president attempted to nominate which individual?

2. The Hamburg cell, which derived its name from the German city it met in, included which members?

3. Sudan was told the Khartoum embassy would close given their terrorist support, but what was one step it could take?

4. Who published a joint manifesto with bin Laden that declared the U.S. as the enemy in 1998?

5. Tenet's reform program for the CIA did what?

Short Essay Questions

1. By early 1999, what was Tenet's view about the possibility bin Laden might again attack America?

2. How was bin Laden described as having viewed himself in Chapter 21?

3. How did the Taliban take their final major prize taken in northern Afghanistan?

4. Why was George J. Tenet in various ways an unlikely candidate capable of repairing the breach between the CIA and Clinton?

5. How was Unocal introduced?

6. How was the Afghan war changing by 1999?

7. How did John Deutch become the CIA chief?

8. Why was autumn in 1999 rough for managers at the Counterterrorist Center who were reporting possible terrorist threats?

9. Why was it the CIA's working idea to attempt to keep bin Laden outside "KKJ"?

10. What was part of the problem when Bush came into office in 2001?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did the Saudis view Abdurrab Rasul Sayyaf as the most important rebel during the war with the Soviets?

Essay Topic 2

What was the Hekmatyar-Tanai coup attempt? Does the evidence indicate bin Laden's involvement was as a semi-official Saudi intelligence liaison or an independent?

Essay Topic 3

How did the Hamburg cell evolve?

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