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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Using stoplight graphics that Bush enjoys, Franks charts ________ of when month-by-month events can and should proceed.
(a) Goalposts
(b) Timings
(c) Deadlines
(d) Expectations

2. Bush dismisses the story in the New York Times about _____________ growing involvement in foreign policy decisions.
(a) Karl Rove's
(b) Donald Rumsfeld's
(c) Colin Powell's
(d) Dick Cheney's

3. Success in Afghanistan increases CIA Director ______________ standing with President Bush.
(a) George Tenet's
(b) Dick Cheney's
(c) Colin Powell's
(d) George Armitage's

4. Even ____________ likes Powell's pitch for going to the United Nations for support of the war effort.
(a) Dick Cheney
(b) Richard Armitage
(c) Condoleeza Rice
(d) Donald Rumsfeld

5. _______ wants any escalation of the US presence in the region invisible to the world, but worrisome to Saddam.
(a) Dick Cheney
(b) Donald Rumsfeld
(c) George Bush
(d) George Tenet

Short Answer Questions

1. The ______________ attacks define Bush's presidency as Pearl Harbor defined FDR's time in office.

2. Wolfowitz sees no need to bog down troops in the mountains when _________ offers a brittle battle.

3. The name of the National Security Presidential Direction was Iraq: Goals, Objectives, and ______________."

4. Rumsfeld wants to talk about _____________, the process of balancing military value with collateral damage to citizens.

5. When Bush is in Texas, _________ chairs a line by line review of a draft National Security Presidential Directive.

(see the answer key)

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