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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. Bin Laden was sponsoring jihad in Communist Yemen and opposed the Saudi government when they allowed American troops in to liberate which nation?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Kuwait.
(d) Oman.

2. What did Massoud's group protect?
(a) Solang Highway.
(b) Solang Airport.
(c) Solang Hospital.
(d) Solang Valley.

3. In what year did CIA agent Howard Hart become the station chief in Islamabad?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1981.

4. The Taliban leaders met with Saudi intelligence as they had to learn how to form and operate what?
(a) Taliban intelligence unit.
(b) Financial gathering operations.
(c) Rebel commando units.
(d) Islamic government.

5. It was decided to treat terrorists as criminals with no claims to political legitimacy, and which was selected as the lead agency in 1995?
(a) CIA.
(b) DIA.
(c) FBI.
(d) DIA.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Mir Amal Kasi was from a wealthy Pakistani family near Quetta who worked as a what?

5. The CIA fed what to Massoud's organization during the war with the Soviet Union?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Abdul Haq introduced?

2. What were some of the elements of Michael Pillsbury's goal in Afghanistan?

3. What joke quickly circulated about James Woolsey, the CIA director, being unable to get an appointment with Clinton?

4. Where were Schroen's assignments in the decade subsequent to the embassy riots in Islamabad in 1979?

5. How did Peter Tomsen's role differ when he took over the position Ed McWilliams held in late 1989?

6. How did Robert Gates view Bill Clinton when he flew to meet the president-elect?

7. Why did the CIA Islamabad station hold a cautious view of Massoud as related in Chapter 8?

8. How did the Soviets view the war in Afghanistan initially?

9. How did Haq's relationship with the CIA begin?

10. What was their response when Tomsen sought Saudi funding to reinforce his alternative "shura" composed of independent rebel Afghan commanders outside ISI control, but where Massoud held a strong role within the movement?

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