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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tim is at __________ base in the foothills of Iraq at the start of this chapter.
(a) Pistachio
(b) Banana
(c) Jonestown
(d) Kurdish

2. Bush releases ___________ from his coalition to keep him in office, but he refuses, appreciating the offer and the concern.
(a) Prince Bandar
(b) Dick Cheney
(c) Jacques Chirac
(d) Tony Blair

3. The WHCO wants _____________ to unveil the document in #121 as a part of the WHIG effort to counter growing antiwar sentiment.
(a) Richard Armitage
(b) Colin Powell
(c) Dick Cheney
(d) Bill Clinton

4. Blair visits Camp David in order to ask for a _____________________ for political purposes.
(a) Chance to send troops to Iraq
(b) Sit down with Iraq
(c) Reprieve from sending troops
(d) Second UN resolution

5. When Powell reports that ___________ will not budge, Bush decides that Op. Plan 1003 should be ready to go in a few hours.
(a) France
(b) Germany
(c) Britain
(d) Iraq

6. Bush is sure that ____________ will change the US image in the word, so he orders more to be put on standby.
(a) Weapons
(b) Humanitarian aid
(c) The shock and awe campaign
(d) War

7. __________ anger flares, telling reporters time is running out on Saddam.
(a) Powell's
(b) Cheney's
(c) Rumsfeld's
(d) Bush's

8. Saul is concerned that ___________ could close the border at any time during their operation.
(a) Iraq
(b) Saudi Arabia
(c) Iran
(d) Turkey

9. Blix has told Rice that military pressure in the area so far is _______________.
(a) Negative
(b) Oppressive
(c) Nonexistent
(d) Positive

10. Cheney agrees _____________ must be convinced Bush means business before they will fall in line.
(a) Iraq
(b) Congress
(c) Other nations
(d) Iran

11. The ______________ discusses making Blix's inspections more effective as it appears his second report is wishy-washy.
(a) CIA
(b) NSC
(c) NSA
(d) FBI

12. Chirac did an interview with _____________ calling for 30 days more of inspections.
(a) Hardball
(b) 60 Minutes
(c) Frontline
(d) Crossfire

13. Rumsfeld's idea of dribbling deployment works and he holds off on big call-ups of reservists until after ____________.
(a) Christmas
(b) Thanksgiving
(c) Memorial Day
(d) Independence Day

14. Bush phones Howard, who pledges 6000 ___________ troops to the efforts in Iraq.
(a) Australian
(b) German
(c) British
(d) Polish

15. _________ wants to begin raising money in February through April , but Bush flatly refuses.
(a) Laura Bush
(b) Karl Rove
(c) Scooter Libby
(d) Dick Cheney

Short Answer Questions

1. Cheney convinces Bush to have military personnel and high risk essential civilians to be inoculated against ___________.

2. Tim now has 90 agents whom NSA supplies with ________________ to call in real time intelligence.

3. Wanting to keep the inspections non-confrontational, Blix turns down ____________ help in pointing out likely WMD locales.

4. ____________ phones Secretary General Annan to assure him the UN will have a vital role to play in postwar Iraq.

5. ____________ encourages Bush to not make the same mistake of 1938, appeasing a dictator and inviting a war.

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