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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bush takes Rumsfeld aside on November 21, 2001 to start planning in secrecy the removal of _______________.
(a) Osama bin Laden
(b) Colin Powell
(c) Saddam Hussein
(d) Tony Blair

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

3. What is the name of the book George W. Bush reads to learn more about the big stick diplomacy policy?
(a) No More War Without Violence
(b) The Life and Times of FDR
(c) Walk Softly: A President's Mission
(d) Theodore Rex

4. Bush's preemptive doctrine is _________________ no nation should accept.
(a) Domination
(b) Slave trading
(c) Facism
(d) Imperialism

5. Rice likes Cheney's charge that the _____________ is becoming irrelevant and a mockery.
(a) Congress
(b) Troops
(c) Protestors
(d) United Nations

6. 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) North Korean nuclear weapon usage
(b) Al Qaeda network
(c) Rise of the Chinese military
(d) Proliferation of WMD

7. George Tenet sends to small paramilitary teams into mountainous northern ____________.
(a) Iraq
(b) Afghanistan
(c) Saudi Arabia
(d) Iran

8. Bush sends ___________ to demand the Pakastanis eliminate the threat of the answer to #13.
(a) George Tenet
(b) Tommy Franks
(c) Donald Rumsfeld
(d) Colin Powell

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

10. Tim hooks up with the PUK man he met in August, who introduces him to two brothers and their important father, nicknamed ____________.
(a) The Pope
(b) Allah
(c) Good Luck
(d) Destroyer

11. Rumsfeld suspects that __________ is in cahoots with Osama bin Laden.
(a) Saddam Hussein
(b) Prince Bandar
(c) Tony Blair
(d) George Bush

12. Saul asks for the job as no one else wants to head the "House of Broken _____."
(a) Relationships
(b) Oil
(c) Toys
(d) Promises

13. Bush dismisses the story in the New York Times about _____________ growing involvement in foreign policy decisions.
(a) Karl Rove's
(b) Donald Rumsfeld's
(c) Colin Powell's
(d) Dick Cheney's

14. ____________ 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

15. 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) FDR's
(c) JFK's
(d) Teddy Roosevelt's

Short Answer Questions

1. The name of the National Security Presidential Direction was Iraq: Goals, Objectives, and ______________."

2. Bush in his speech brings together North Korea, Iran, and Iraq to become the ____________.

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

4. Michael Hayden still downplays the WMD in Iraq as _______________.

5. Rumsfeld orders plans for the "Liberation of ____________" and postwar stability operations.

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