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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The CIA and ISI planned another offensive to build the strength of Massoud and other rebel leaders that called for them to take Kabul in which winter?
(a) 1987-1988.
(b) 1990-1991.
(c) 1988-1989.
(d) 1989-1990.

2. Yosef was brought back to the U.S. on what date where he told the FBI that he was inspired by certain leaders but refused to say who?
(a) 4 November 1996.
(b) 8 February 1995.
(c) 5 June 1993.
(d) 2 July 1994.

3. The war in Afghanistan cost the Soviet Union how many billion dollars?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

4. The Taliban was initiated with which individual as its leader?
(a) Mullah Mohammed Rabbani.
(b) Mullah Mohammed Omar.
(c) Mohammed Yousaf.
(d) Mahmoud Ahmed.

5. By the mid-1980s, the Afghan rebels were staging attacks within what borders?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Soviet Union.
(c) Romania.
(d) Ukraine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yosef and his associates also had plans to hijack a plane and crash it where?

2. How did the author describe Clinton's view of the CIA as an institution?

3. Who was the new Department of State special envoy to the Afghan resistance that served from 1989-1992?

4. The success of the CIA depended on Hart's ability to work with Akhtar due Rahman in developing what list?

5. Prince Turki al-Faisal was chief of Saudi intelligence during what period?

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