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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What transpired in November 1989 that meant Afghan President Najibullah was no longer part of a world Communist movement?
(a) Tiananmen Square protests.
(b) Soviet decision to pull out of Afghanistan.
(c) State Department call for a successor to him.
(d) Fall of the Berlin Wall.

2. Tenet's reform program for the CIA did what?
(a) Emphasized both covert actions, intelligence gathering.
(b) De-emphasized covert actions, intelligence gathering.
(c) De-emphasized covert actions, emphasized intelligence gathering.
(d) Emphasized covert actions, de-emphasized intelligence gathering.

3. 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) 1990-1991.
(b) 1987-1988.
(c) 1989-1990.
(d) 1988-1989.

4. What group did Massoud join while at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?
(a) Hitler Youth Organization.
(b) Marxist Youth Organization.
(c) Jihad Youth Organization.
(d) Muslim Youth Organization.

5. Gary Schroen, a CIA agent, met with Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was what?
(a) Current Afghan defense minister.
(b) Former Afghan defense minister.
(c) Current Afghan president.
(d) Former Afghan president.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was seen as the biggest threat once the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan?

2. Economic sanctions were imposed by the U.S. against which nation in 1993 because of government-sponsored terrorism?

3. How did Tenet view terrorism in terms of the level of threat it represented to the U.S. and the world?

4. The ISI began to supply the Taliban in 1995, which soon controlled what region?

5. When Deutch quit as CIA director after merely 19 months, the president attempted to nominate which individual?

(see the answer key)

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