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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. In what year did the Taliban form?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1990.

2. There were how many direct contacts between a CIA officer and bin Laden in the 1980s?
(a) One in person and two by telephone.
(b) None.
(c) One in person and one by telephone.
(d) Only one.

3. How was President Zia killed?
(a) Plane crash.
(b) Bomb explosion.
(c) Commando raid.
(d) Heart attack.

4. Many of the reports from Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia were treated how in Washington?
(a) Accepted.
(b) Discounted.
(c) Required more study.
(d) Probable.

5. In 1993. the CIA was warned by the State Department envoy in Central Asia that the policy of allowing the Afghans to find their own solution achieved what?
(a) Minimal success.
(b) Moderate success.
(c) Failure.
(d) Significant success.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hamid Gul was Director-General of the ISI during what period?

2. Cofer Black became the CIA station chief in which capital city in 1993?

3. The CIA-sponsored rebels were facing what type of constant Soviet attacks in 1986?

4. Many of the Kandahar Durranis were living where in exile in 1994?

5. Massoud was a top target for the Soviets because his group used and repaired captured weapons and equipment against which nationality?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Ahmed Shah Massoud join the Muslim Youth Organization while he was a student at Kabul Polytechnic Institute?

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

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

5. How had the city of Peshawar evolved by late 1986?

6. How did Ahmed Badeeb sneak through Pakistani customs with over $1.8 million in U.S. cash?

7. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

8. In the opening of Chapter 5, what did CIA director William Casey relay to President Ronald Reagan in January 1984?

9. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

10. What were some of Benazir Bhutto's goals when elected for a second term as Pakistan's prime minister?

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