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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was Robert's Arabic training?

2. What is the best way to tense and break a leg according to Robert's instructor?

3. Where did Robert's interlocutor in Dortmund want Hafiz Al-Asad removed from?

4. How many Marines were killed in the Lebanon bombing?

5. How many CIA agents died in the Beirut bombing in 1983?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Syrian Brotherhood want, and what was an unforgivable error according to Robert?

2. What did Robert and four classmates do in Chapter 3?

3. What was the Muslim Brotherhood, and what did they request?

4. What was Robert's residence in Madras like?

5. Why didn't anyone notice the truck in front of the St. Georges Hotel in Chapter 6?

6. What became his life when Robert moved to Aspen, Colorado?

7. Why didn't Baer bring in his own attorney?

8. Why were requests to intelligence agencies in Paris and Bonn often unmet according to Chapter 7?

9. Why did Robert have five tails on him, and what had been given to him?

10. Why was Sami an important contact for Robert?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the roles of the two different types of CIA agents, and discuss how these agents have been important to gathering intelligence.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the roles of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the long-term impact the American Embassy bombing had on CIA agents and others and the reasons for the lack of investigation

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