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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unocal wanted to build a pipeline from what location through Kandahar to Pakistan?
(a) Kazakhstan.
(b) Turkmenistan.
(c) Tajikistan.
(d) Uzbekistan.

2. The CIA did not favor the use of Stingers because they could be used by terrorists against what?
(a) Civilian ambulances.
(b) Civilian airliners.
(c) Civilian freight vehicles.
(d) Civilian ships.

3. Like all students at the time while attending Kabul Polytechnic Institute, what did Massoud have a choice between?
(a) Marxism or radical Hinduism.
(b) Leninism or radical Buddhism.
(c) Nazism or radical Judaism.
(d) Communism or radical Islam.

4. Who was the CIA chief selected when the Bill Clinton administration took office?
(a) John Deutch.
(b) Robert Gates.
(c) Edmund McWilliams.
(d) James Woolsey.

5. When did the Soviets invade Afghanistan with their goal to kill the Afghan leader, Hafizullah Amin, and install a new communist regime?
(a) January 1979.
(b) March 1979.
(c) December 1979.
(d) July 1979.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bin Laden practiced operational security that was intensive and he was cautious of what?

2. Where did the Hamburg cell, as it was known, coalesce?

3. Bin Laden was sponsoring jihad in Communist Yemen and opposed the Saudi government when they allowed American troops in to liberate which nation?

4. In what year was Bhutto ousted from office and Nawaz Sharif became prime minister?

5. Benazir Bhutto told America it would bring peace to the nation, but did not tell them about aid to the Taliban from where?

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