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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) Ask his contact to meet him.
(b) Plant a bomb.
(c) Infiltrate the Fatah.
(d) Gather intelligence on the IJO.

2. How long before it was set to take place was Tony Lake's message received?
(a) A few weeks.
(b) A few days.
(c) A few minutes.
(d) A few hours.

3. When was the CIA bureau in Tajikistan able to resume operations?
(a) When rebels took over the government.
(b) When Robert recruited a Russian agent.
(c) When the ex-communists took over the government.
(d) When everyone was evacuated.

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

5. How did Robert characterize young French intelligence officers?
(a) Obsessed.
(b) Focused.
(c) Politically correct.
(d) Snobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ahmad Chalabi want to do?

2. How was Robert brought to the Lebanese Embassy?

3. When did Yasir Arafat form the Fatah?

4. Who were Arafat and 4,000 of his followers evacuated by?

5. Who were the Abdallah barracks taken over by according to Robert?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Robert's focus when assigned to Northern Iraq in Chapter 14?

2. What meeting did Jean arrange?

3. What group did Hasan join?

4. What orders did the State Department give, and how did CIA agents approach the situation?

5. How did Robert treat Hasan when Hasan came to the CIA office?

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

7. What did Talabani tell Robert when they arrived at a one story cinder block building?

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

9. What fact fed into the myth about Saddam according to Chapter 15?

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

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