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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Franks delivers the ____________ meaning that the full force would be generated in the region before fighting starts.
(a) Generated Start Plan
(b) Terror Retaliation
(c) Shock and Awe campaign
(d) Final Solution

2. There is consensus that ___________ will be needed to stabilize a post-Saddam Iraq, war or no war.
(a) US forces
(b) UN troops
(c) Worldwide involvement
(d) UN resolutions

3. Michael Gerson works on the ____________ speech for President Bush to give to the country.
(a) War demands
(b) Inaugural
(c) State of the Union
(d) Fireside

4. The ____________ approach to the Security Council where opposition is unanimous is what Powell presents.
(a) Minimalist
(b) Democratic
(c) Maximalist
(d) Facist

5. Bush releases the proposed language of the resolution, and the Washington Post declares Bush has virtually routed the ____________.
(a) Republicans
(b) Democrats
(c) Iraqis
(d) Saudi Arabians

6. Who is the cheery 74-year-old UN weapons inspector who is brought into Iraq to check for WMD?
(a) Hans Blix
(b) Mohamed ElBaradei
(c) George H. W. Bush
(d) Colin Powell

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

8. A ____________ run after Bush's Axis of Evil speech determines signals intelligence on Iraq is negligible.
(a) CIA
(b) Rock Drill
(c) Congressional
(d) Fire Drill

9. Michael V. Hayden is Director of the _____________, heading a staff of 32,000 people.
(a) Federal Bureau of Investigation
(b) Cover Military Operations Group
(c) Central Intelligence Agency
(d) National Security Agency

10. ___________ is troubled about Iraq after the briefings on the covert plan in Cheney's office.
(a) Colin Powell
(b) George W. Bush
(c) Senator Bob Graham
(d) Donald Rumsfeld

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

12. Elder Bush's NSA declared an attack on Iraq will turn the Middle East into a _____________, setting back the war on terrorism.
(a) Third World country
(b) Death zone
(c) Cauldron
(d) Whirlpool

13. Bush argues that Iraq gathers the most serious dangers of our age into one place, evoking _____________ response to the Soviet missiles in Cuba.
(a) Jimmy Carter's
(b) JFK's
(c) FDR's
(d) Teddy Roosevelt's

14. On August 5, it is found out that the Generated Start Plan is executable, but versatile ____________ preparations are underway.
(a) Shock and Awe's
(b) Operation Iraqi Freedom's
(c) Freedom Fighters'
(d) Running Start's

15. Franks assures George W. Bush that the plan is being tested by ____________ and takes the hint to get things moving.
(a) The JCS
(b) War games
(c) A staff of college students
(d) CIA operatives

Short Answer Questions

1. George Tenet sends to small paramilitary teams into mountainous northern ____________.

2. ____________ are tasked with giving answers on what to hit, while the others are ordered to determine how to leverage assets.

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

4. _____________ sees a fork in the road of either a new UN resolution and renewed inspections or war.

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

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