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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) Shock and Awe campaign
(b) Terror Retaliation
(c) Final Solution
(d) Generated Start Plan

2. ___________ is sure that demanding Saddam submit full WMD accounting within 30 days will prove he's been lying.
(a) George W. Bush
(b) Donald Rumsfeld
(c) Dick Cheney
(d) Condoleeza Rice

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

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

5. The ____________ document states that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, but then telegraphs doubts in this assertion.
(a) Key Judgments
(b) Major Concerns
(c) Key Assumptions
(d) Contradictory Paths

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

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

8. 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

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

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

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

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

13. Tony Blair believes Iraq poses less _________ threat than North Korea or Iran.
(a) Economic
(b) Combat
(c) WMD
(d) Religious

14. Bush and Rumsfeld decide to go to the ____________ to ask for honest opinions about Iraq.
(a) NSA
(b) CIA
(c) JCS
(d) FBI

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bush later recalls that Tommy Franks confirmed that the war is absolutely _____________.

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

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

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

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