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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bush on September 19 tells 11 congressmen that al Qaeda is being hunted down successfully, so Saddam and his ________ are the biggest threat.
(a) Soliders
(b) Sons
(c) WMDs
(d) Plans

2. Powell is beginning to show his anger at always being below ____________ in the pecking order.
(a) Dick Cheney
(b) Donald Rumsfeld
(c) Richard Armitage
(d) President Bush

3. Clinton officials brief the incoming Bush staff on enforcing ___________ zones in Iraq.
(a) No fly
(b) Civilian
(c) No bombing
(d) Peace

4. When Bush is in Texas, _________ chairs a line by line review of a draft National Security Presidential Directive.
(a) Colin Powell
(b) Donald Rumsfeld
(c) Richard Armitage
(d) Condoleeza Rice

5. Who does Cheney invite to the war briefing in order to secure access to a border?
(a) El Jarazzi
(b) Prince Bandar
(c) Prince Abdullah
(d) Osama bin Laden

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumsfeld's idea of dribbling deployment works and he holds off on big call-ups of reservists until after ____________.

2. Iraq is now in the hands of ____________, even though CIA resources in the area are small.

3. Bush argues that Iraq gathers the most serious dangers of our age into one place, evoking _____________ response to the Soviet missiles in Cuba.

4. Franks briefs the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose turf wars in ___________ he has criticized.

5. ___________ learns the Pentagon is revising a massive Iraq war plan and he cannot believe they would do this while already at war.

(see the answer key)

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