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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ____________ are tasked with giving answers on what to hit, while the others are ordered to determine how to leverage assets.
(a) Targetters
(b) Risk analysts
(c) Interns
(d) Planners

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

3. Who is the cheery 74-year-old UN weapons inspector who is brought into Iraq to check for WMD?
(a) George H. W. Bush
(b) Mohamed ElBaradei
(c) Colin Powell
(d) Hans Blix

4. Briefing Bush and the NSC, Franks implies recent assertions about ____________ are overblown.
(a) WMD
(b) 9/11
(c) Saddam
(d) Bin Laden

5. Elder Bush's NSA declared an attack on Iraq will turn the Middle East into a _____________, setting back the war on terrorism.
(a) Whirlpool
(b) Death zone
(c) Cauldron
(d) Third World country

6. ___________ 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

7. Rumsfeld orders plans for the "Liberation of ____________" and postwar stability operations.
(a) Mosul
(b) Saddam
(c) Kabul
(d) Baghdad

8. The ______________ attacks define Bush's presidency as Pearl Harbor defined FDR's time in office.
(a) Afghanistan
(b) 9/11
(c) Iraqi force
(d) Anti-war

9. Bush on September 19 tells 11 congressmen that al Qaeda is being hunted down successfully, so Saddam and his ________ are the biggest threat.
(a) Soliders
(b) WMDs
(c) Plans
(d) Sons

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

11. Saul sends Tim into Iraq with a crack ____________ team to recruit agents, push weak spots, and prepare for sabotage.
(a) ROCKSTAR
(b) NEW DAWN
(c) NILE
(d) CIA

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. Michael Gerson works on the ____________ speech for President Bush to give to the country.
(a) War demands
(b) Inaugural
(c) Fireside
(d) State of the Union

14. Iraq is now in the hands of ____________, even though CIA resources in the area are small.
(a) Saul
(b) Tommy Franks
(c) Tim
(d) Donald Rumsfeld

15. _____________ sees a fork in the road of either a new UN resolution and renewed inspections or war.
(a) Dick Cheney
(b) Donald Rumsfeld
(c) Colin Powell
(d) George W. Bush

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The ____________ accept the resolution's demand, but insist on a second resolution to authorize war.

3. Franks assures George W. Bush that the plan is being tested by ____________ and takes the hint to get things moving.

4. There is consensus that ___________ will be needed to stabilize a post-Saddam Iraq, war or no war.

5. Wolfowitz sees no need to bog down troops in the mountains when _________ offers a brittle battle.

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