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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ____________ is the strength of any military plan, says Powell, and advises Franks to keep the force as small as is practical.
(a) Realism
(b) Intelligence
(c) Surprise
(d) Power

2. Already burdened with Afghanistan operations, Franks and ___________ comply with Rumsfeld's orders.
(a) Dick Cheney
(b) Major General Renuart
(c) George Bush
(d) Colin Powell

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

4. Rumsfeld orders plans for the "Liberation of ____________" and postwar stability operations.
(a) Baghdad
(b) Kabul
(c) Mosul
(d) Saddam

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Michael Gerson works on the ____________ speech for President Bush to give to the country.

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

4. Rice likes Cheney's charge that the _____________ is becoming irrelevant and a mockery.

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

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