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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robert ask Farid to do?
(a) Gather intelligence on the IJO.
(b) Ask his contact to meet him.
(c) Plant a bomb.
(d) Infiltrate the Fatah.

2. Where did Robert meet with a Iraqi Major General?
(a) Basra.
(b) Zakhu.
(c) Karbala.
(d) Mosul.

3. What did the State Department order of their employees in Beirut?
(a) To never go beyond the Embassy grounds without escort.
(b) To tip the locals graciously.
(c) To not make local calls
(d) To never talk to locals.

4. What was Yuri Abramov's rank when Robert met him?
(a) General.
(b) Captain.
(c) Major.
(d) Colonel.

5. What myth did the Major General Robert met ask about?
(a) That the CIA would supply rebels with weapons.
(b) That the U.S. found Saddam's weapons.
(c) That the U.S. paid the rebels.
(d) That the U.S. wanted Saddam in power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sterile number?

2. What did Robert not know when he first arrived in Iraq according to Chapter 15?

3. When was Rick Ames arrested?

4. How much did the State Department ask of foreign diplomats who wanted to be evacuated?

5. What was Robert and Tom's mission?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened a few hours before the coup?

2. What order did Robert receive after he jumped out of an AN-2 biplane?

3. What happened when Arafat was forced out of Beirut in 1982?

4. What did Robert spend a day doing when the fighting broke out in Dushanbe?

5. Who was Ahmad Chalabi, and why was he without support?

6. What did Yasir Arafat serve in according to Chapter 11?

7. What did the general want?

8. What did Robert ask for during his time in Rabat, Morocco according to Chapter 13?

9. What meeting did Jean arrange?

10. What happened on March 6, 1995 in Chapter 18?

(see the answer keys)

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