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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Rumsfeld tangles with Powell about UN sanctions on ____________ items Powell knows the French and Russians want reconsidered.
(a) Engagement
(b) Nuclear
(c) Dual use
(d) Combat

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

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

5. 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) Proliferation of WMD
(c) Al Qaeda network
(d) Rise of the Chinese military

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

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

8. Michael Hayden still downplays the WMD in Iraq as _______________.
(a) Weak
(b) Inferential
(c) A worry, but not a big worrd
(d) Deferential

9. Wolfowitz sees no need to bog down troops in the mountains when _________ offers a brittle battle.
(a) North Korea
(b) Iraq
(c) Iran
(d) Afghanistan

10. Using stoplight graphics that Bush enjoys, Franks charts ________ of when month-by-month events can and should proceed.
(a) Timings
(b) Deadlines
(c) Expectations
(d) Goalposts

11. Bush recalled to Woodward that he had been sure that the Iraqis longed for _____________ and would seize the moment.
(a) Freedom
(b) Help
(c) Stability
(d) Peace

12. Saddam in 1972 signed a ___________ with the Soviets to help make Iraq a Cold War pawn.
(a) Terrorist Prohibition
(b) Friendship Treaty
(c) War Plan
(d) War Promise

13. Bush enjoys laying down the challenge, knowing that _____________ makes possible giving diplomacy a try.
(a) Peace
(b) Economic sanctions
(c) War planning
(d) UN backing

14. Though the media says that Bush has highly detailed war plans, ____________says they are prepared, but have not decided to go to war.
(a) Donald Rumsfeld
(b) Tommy Franks
(c) Richard Armitage
(d) Dick Cheney

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Snowcroft, a private consultant, publishes in the Wall Stress Journal a piece stating ______________ is not connected to 9/11.

2. When Bush is in Texas, _________ chairs a line by line review of a draft National Security Presidential Directive.

3. Michael Gerson works on the ____________ speech for President Bush to give to the country.

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

5. Bush dismisses the story in the New York Times about _____________ growing involvement in foreign policy decisions.

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