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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. Pakistan recognized the Taliban as its government without Sharif knowing, and days later the Taliban was expelled from where?
(a) Southern Afghanistan.
(b) Western Afghanistan.
(c) Eastern Afghanistan.
(d) Northern Afghanistan.

2. Where did the CIA stand in regard to Black's enthusiasm in favor of armed drones?
(a) Unaware.
(b) Divided.
(c) In favor.
(d) Against.

3. Where did the Hamburg cell, as it was known, coalesce?
(a) A coffee shop back room.
(b) A gymnasium back room.
(c) A shabby hotel room.
(d) A shabby mosque.

4. Shortly into 2000, the Counterterrorist Center picked up information that bin Laden had arrived in what location?
(a) Zawhar Kili Camp.
(b) Jalalabad Camp.
(c) Jaji Camp.
(d) Derunta Camp.

5. In 2000, the White House counterterrorism head asked which acquaintance to address the bin Laden intelligence problem?
(a) Christopher F. Allen.
(b) Charles Alan.
(c) Scott Frye.
(d) Charles Allen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the White House national security adviser between 1993 and 1997?

2. By when had bin Laden moved his operations to the south to Kandahar?

3. Tenet's reform program for the CIA did what?

4. When Ziauddin fell from power, which CIA branch lost an ally?

5. The suicide bombing against the USS Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer, took place on 12 October 2000 in what port?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Unocal introduced?

2. Why were Clarke and his counter-terrorism group at the White House frustrated by late spring in 2000?

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

4. How did the "bin Laden Issue Station" evolve?

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

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

7. What plan was agreed to between Pakistani intelligence director Naseem Rana and CIA station chief Schroen regarding the capture of Mir Amal Kasi?

8. Why was Nawaz Sharif in fear of his army?

9. What were some of the calculations the CIA's Counterterrorism Center had made regarding al Qaeda by late 1999?

10. What role had Tom Pickering assumed under Clinton?

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