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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Colin Powell sees __________ as isolated and friendless and believes he will wither.
(a) Saddam
(b) George W. Bush
(c) Prince Bandar
(d) Osama bin Laden

2. Bush slips when he is with the Italian PM saying that Saddam will not be allowed to ________________.
(a) Breathe again
(b) Live
(c) Hide from him
(d) Stay in power

3. After Saddam's fall from power, Bush believes, the United Nations can get "legs of ____________ back."
(a) Relevance
(b) Power
(c) Authority
(d) Responsibility

4. ____________ encourages Bush to not make the same mistake of 1938, appeasing a dictator and inviting a war.
(a) Elie Wiesel
(b) Richard Armitage
(c) Donald Rumsfeld
(d) Dick Cheney

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

6. Bush truly believes that changing ____________ will also change Iran and its current struggles.
(a) North Korea
(b) Afghanistan
(c) Saudi Arabia
(d) Iraq

7. A year later, Bush tells Woodward that __________ agonizes over battlefield deaths and the domestic protests his orders might cause.
(a) Laura
(b) Powell
(c) Armitage
(d) Jenna

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

9. Bush, however, contends that any nation harboring a/an _____________ to be a terrorist.
(a) Dictator
(b) Iraqi
(c) Terrorist
(d) Muslim

10. Who is the logical choice for presenting the case to the United Nations?
(a) Dick Cheney
(b) George W. Bush
(c) Colin Powell
(d) Donald Rumsfeld

11. Bush summons _________ on January 13, without Cheney or Rice hovering and compliments him on his hard work.
(a) Colin Powell
(b) Richard Armitage
(c) Michael Gerson
(d) Donald Rumsfeld

12. Rice talks about how they can not guarantee that they will find a _____________ when they fight with Iraq.
(a) Saddam family member
(b) Free person
(c) Smoking gun
(d) Scud missile

13. Some 60% of Iraqis are being fed by the United Nations ________________ program
(a) Oil
(b) Oil charity
(c) Money for food
(d) Oil for food

14. Bush discusses the American backlash against __________ with Irish Prime Minister Ahern.
(a) Britain
(b) Spain
(c) Iran
(d) France

15. ____________ recommends looking at the big picture and not letting the press draw them out on every battlefield development.
(a) Richard Armitage.
(b) Colin Powell
(c) Dick Cheney
(d) Donald Rumsfeld

Short Answer Questions

1. On February 24, Bush and the NSC are briefs on the Iraqi ___________ reentering the world after free of UN sanctions.

2. The purpose of going into Iraq is to ______________, not to kill the regime as was done in Vietnam.

3. 25,000 top ___________ officials need to be removed as a part of post-Saddam regime planning.

4. Powell is convinced ______________ has fixated on linking Saddam and al Qaeda as fact, whereas ambiguity exists.

5. What is the top secret document Franks and Rumsfeld bring to Bush on March 4, named so to avoid legal requirements of disclosure to Congress?

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