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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. In each case that the Clinton Cabinet considered cruise missile strikes, what was a decisive problem?

2. Who met Mahmoud Ahmed in the spring of 2001 and advised Pakistan could do much more in the fight with bin Laden?

3. How many casualties resulted in these two U.S. embassy attacks in Africa?

4. In what year was Bhutto ousted from office and Nawaz Sharif became prime minister?

5. Equipment the CIA outfitted the Afghan tribal fighters with to use in their search for Kasi included what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan was agreed to between Pakistani intelligence director Naseem Rana and CIA station chief Schroen regarding the capture of Mir Amal Kasi?

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

3. How did the "bin Laden Issue Station" evolve?

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

5. How had the U.S. intelligence arms switched their focus by 1998?

6. What was the view of CIA staff members regarding Cofer Black's enthusiastic view for armed Predator drones?

7. Why were Clarke and his counter-terrorism group at the White House frustrated by late spring in 2000?

8. How was Clinton's visit to Pakistan among the strangest that presidential history has to offer?

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

10. What were some of the calculations the CIA's Counterterrorism Center had made regarding al Qaeda by late 1999?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Taliban begin in 1994 and evolve?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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