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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. Equipment the CIA outfitted the Afghan tribal fighters with to use in their search for Kasi included what?
(a) Heat-seeking, tracking equipment that used radar.
(b) Infrared electromagnetic spectrum for wireless communications.
(c) Tracking, locating equipment that used satellites.
(d) Infrared night-vision goggles.

2. Which nation agreed Predator drones could be flown from one of its air bases while controlled from Langley?
(a) Uzbekistan.
(b) Tajikistan.
(c) Turkmenistan.
(d) Kazakhstan.

3. Some of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombers belong to al-Qaeda sleeper cells in Africa, and all were trained where?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Yemen.
(c) Iran.
(d) Pakistan.

4. The 1997-2000 White House national security adviser was determined "terrorism and al Qaeda" would rank where?
(a) Not the "number one" issue.
(b) The "number two" issue.
(c) The "number one" issue.
(d) It "matched Korea" on the list.

5. The CIA and State Department issued what alert shortly after bin Laden helped publish a joint manifesto?
(a) Bin Laden required a medium priority.
(b) Bin Laden required a low priority.
(c) Bin Laden required no priority.
(d) Bin Laden required a high priority.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did the Turkmenistan government make their deal?

2. In each case that the Clinton Cabinet considered cruise missile strikes, what was a decisive problem?

3. After the USS Cole attack, what was Bush's response when asked if terrorist-hosting nations should be subject to retaliation?

4. Unocal wanted to build a pipeline from what location through Kandahar to Pakistan?

5. Uzbekistan, which is bordered to the south by Afghanistan, was ruled by which individual in 1999?

Short Essay Questions

1. What MiG fighter jet intercept mission of a CIA Predator drone was described in Chapter 29?

2. How was Clinton's visit to Pakistan among the strangest that presidential history has to offer?

3. How did Prince Turki view the threat bin Laden posed?

4. How was Unocal introduced?

5. How did the Taliban take their final major prize taken in northern Afghanistan?

6. What took place in the Oval Office meeting on 2 December 1998 in the early afternoon?

7. What support did CIA field operatives reportedly seek from the White House team of Richard Clarke?

8. How had the U.S. intelligence arms switched their focus by 1998?

9. By early 1999, what was Tenet's view about the possibility bin Laden might again attack America?

10. What was the view of CIA staff members regarding Cofer Black's enthusiastic view for armed Predator drones?

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