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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The CIA has identified three major threats to security at the time of Bush's beginnings in office. What is NOT one of these threats?
(a) Rise of the Chinese military
(b) Proliferation of WMD
(c) Al Qaeda network
(d) North Korean nuclear weapon usage

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

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

4. ____________ pushes Powell through regular private meetings to begin to build with Bush a relationship like the one Bush and Rumsfeld share.
(a) Condoleeza Rice
(b) Richard Armitage
(c) Michael Gerson
(d) Dick Cheney

5. Rice explains how ____________ can serve as a model for nuclear disarmament.
(a) South Africa
(b) The United States
(c) North Korea
(d) Zimbabwe

6. ______________ and China have commercial ties with Iraq and are on record opposing the US efforts to oust Saddam.
(a) North Korea
(b) Japan
(c) Spain
(d) Russia

7. The name of the National Security Presidential Direction was Iraq: Goals, Objectives, and ______________."
(a) Recovery
(b) Wartime
(c) Strategy
(d) Charity

8. What is NOT one of the things that Bush authorizes the CIA to do within Iraq?
(a) Coordinate intelligence gathering
(b) Conduct sabotage
(c) Find Saddam's family
(d) Disrupt financial operations

9. On February 28, Franks presents data on _______________ possible targets, a number that pleases Rumsfeld.
(a) 1000
(b) 2000
(c) 4000
(d) 10,000

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

11. 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) Whirlpool
(d) Cauldron

12. What does the false story about the regime include in order to sell the war plans?
(a) Planned train malfunctions
(b) Dirty bombs
(c) Trade embargoes
(d) Economic sanctions

13. Like Bush, Gerson calls himself an evangelical Christian and compassionate ______________.
(a) Prophet
(b) Republican
(c) Conservative
(d) Public servant

14. The ___________ never declares categorically to the media that Saddam has WMD.
(a) NSC
(b) NSA
(c) CIA
(d) JCS

15. The day after Powell's dinner with Bush, Franks orders the fast option, _____________, put in place.
(a) Now or Never
(b) Enduring Iraqi Freedom
(c) Hybrid
(d) Shock and Awe

Short Answer Questions

1. As the Iraq plan begins to develop, ______________ begins to swagger and to deceive others.

2. Saul asks for the job as no one else wants to head the "House of Broken _____."

3. What is the name of the book George W. Bush reads to learn more about the big stick diplomacy policy?

4. Bush takes Rumsfeld aside on November 21, 2001 to start planning in secrecy the removal of _______________.

5. Ground commanders will know their foes better than they know themselves by accessing the secure ______________.

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