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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. What did the Iraqi National Congress's plan to overthrow the government in Iraq depend on?

2. When did the Northern Alliance take Kabul?

3. What was Moussaoui arrested near?

4. President Bush was documented as stating that he has the authority to suspend the Geneva Convention if what?

5. How many suspects were originally implicated in the abuses at Abu Ghraib?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to cause elation in the military, during the first weeks of the Iraq war?

2. What assumptions did the I.N.C. plan, given to Wolfowitz, rely on?

3. What were some of the issues the CIA faced, starting with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late eighties?

4. Who was disturbed by the conditions at Guantanamo?

5. What happened in Congress regarding the Abu Ghraib scandal?

6. What were some of the early problems facing the U.S. forces in the Iraq war?

7. What happened when the Special Forces were put down in the attack zone of Operation Anaconda?

8. What was occurring when the information linking Iraq and Niger came out?

9. What happened to the U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force when they went to get Mullah Omar?

10. What was the experience of the military with previous assassination programs during the Vietnam War?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Citing specific information to explain your answer, detail how the fights within the CIA, the Defense Department, and the Bush Administration hindered the U.S. actions in Iraq.

Essay Topic 2

After 9/11, there was a "war on terror." According to the evidence presented in this book, was this an apt name for the events that occurred after 9/11?

Essay Topic 3

According to the author, why was the Bush Administration able to do so many of the things it did, when in other times those things might not have been publically acceptable? Support your answer with examples from the book.

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