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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Snowcroft, a private consultant, publishes in the Wall Stress Journal a piece stating ______________ is not connected to 9/11.
(a) Saddam
(b) Saudi Arabia
(c) North Korea
(d) Bin Laden

2. Cheney demands that Saddam's ______________ is the only issue and a debate ensures
(a) Threat against Bush
(b) Clear threat
(c) Past
(d) Intention

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

4. As the Iraq plan begins to develop, ______________ begins to swagger and to deceive others.
(a) Dick Cheney
(b) George W. Bush
(c) Colin Powell
(d) Donald Rumsfeld

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

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. The day after Powell's dinner with Bush, Franks orders the fast option, _____________, put in place.

3. Using stoplight graphics that Bush enjoys, Franks charts ________ of when month-by-month events can and should proceed.

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

5. Rumsfeld tangles with Powell about UN sanctions on ____________ items Powell knows the French and Russians want reconsidered.

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