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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. ____________ are tasked with giving answers on what to hit, while the others are ordered to determine how to leverage assets.
(a) Risk analysts
(b) Interns
(c) Planners
(d) Targetters

3. ___________ targets November 2002 through February 2003 for the war start, but insists he will launch anytime the President orders.
(a) Donald Rumsfeld
(b) Dick Cheney
(c) Tommy Franks
(d) Colin Powell

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

5. Wolfowitz sees no need to bog down troops in the mountains when _________ offers a brittle battle.
(a) North Korea
(b) Iraq
(c) Iran
(d) Afghanistan

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumsfeld orders plans for the "Liberation of ____________" and postwar stability operations.

2. Saddam in 1972 signed a ___________ with the Soviets to help make Iraq a Cold War pawn.

3. _________ is an ex-SEAL, fluent in Arabic, and tasked with leading a team of seven from Turkey to halfway to Baghdad.

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

5. Bush dismisses the story in the New York Times about _____________ growing involvement in foreign policy decisions.

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