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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Bush in his speech brings together North Korea, Iran, and Iraq to become the ____________.
(a) Enemies of Freedom
(b) Axis of Evil
(c) Latest allies in war
(d) Targets of Terror

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

5. Rumsfeld wants to talk about _____________, the process of balancing military value with collateral damage to citizens.
(a) War timeq
(b) Avoidance
(c) Cost-benefit ratio
(d) Targeting

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

7. What is the used acronym for signals intelligence as it is gathered by the National Security Agency?
(a) SIGINT
(b) SI
(c) SIIT
(d) SIGNIT

8. Bush wants Congress to pass a resolution supporting ______________ against Saddam.
(a) Terrorism
(b) Economic sanctions
(c) UN discussions
(d) Military force

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

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

11. 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) Al Qaeda network
(c) North Korean nuclear weapon usage
(d) Proliferation of WMD

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

13. Bush makes headlines demanding that Iraq readmit UN _____________.
(a) Troops
(b) Peacekeepers
(c) Inspectors
(d) Mediators

14. ___________ targets November 2002 through February 2003 for the war start, but insists he will launch anytime the President orders.
(a) Tommy Franks
(b) Donald Rumsfeld
(c) Colin Powell
(d) Dick Cheney

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Powell recalls the saying of _____________: "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."

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

3. Even ____________ likes Powell's pitch for going to the United Nations for support of the war effort.

4. The New York Times reports the administration is charging Iraq with buying ___________ to use in enriching uranium for a bomb.

5. What will the strike on Iraq be deemed if only the US is involved in the actual fighting?

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