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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 happens when Avrakotos gives a small ammunition contract to a factory in Pakistan?
(a) Yasouf does not allow the factory to take the contract.
(b) Yasouf befriends Avrakotos.
(c) Yasouf becomes angry.
(d) Yasouf steps aside.

2. What American Missile, made by General Dynamics in California, is introduced?
(a) Stinger.
(b) Last Stand.
(c) Great American Missile.
(d) Striker.

3. How does Wilson gain a flight to a dinner in his honor?
(a) Leaders he has met want to honor him.
(b) His friends want to honor him.
(c) He calls in multiple favors.
(d) He pays enough money.

4. What does everyone in the CIA believe about Wilson and his plans in Egypt?
(a) He is not the appropriate person to be meeting with a Prime Minister.
(b) He is an embarrassment to the United States.
(c) He stands to gain from the deal.
(d) He should not be taking a vacation at this time.

5. What happens to President Zia in the summer of 1988?
(a) He is assassinated.
(b) He resigns.
(c) He dies from a heart attack.
(d) He dies in a plane crash.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the story begin to leak into the public?

2. What serves to boost morale?

3. One colleague from the agency calls to congratulate him. What does Avrakotos realize?

4. Of what does Russian leader Gorbachev accuse Pakistan's President Zia?

5. Why does Zia lie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Avrakotos do in his new post in the Near East Division?

2. What does Wilson do in a period of eighteen months?

3. What takes place in 1984 in Wilson's life?

4. What happens as the war in Afghanistan gains legitimacy?

5. What do Charlie Wilson and Gust Avrakotos work out?

6. What does the enormous budget for Afghanistan do for Avrakotos?

7. Why does the CIA begin to worry about the mujahideen?

8. With what does Vaughn Forest approach Wilson?

9. What does Chapter Twenty-eight introduce?

10. What happens with the exit of Simpson?

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