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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer 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?

2. Like all students at the time while attending Kabul Polytechnic Institute, what did Massoud have a choice between?

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

4. Many of the reports from Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia were treated how in Washington?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the major concerns of the U.S. embassy at Kabul in early 1988?

2. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

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

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

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

6. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

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

8. How was it, as related in Chapter 9, that the Pakistani ISI allied with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a means of isolating and defeating rival commanders about Kabul?

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

10. Why did Schroen roll the jeep into the lake at the end of Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the "hermetic culture" the FBI had become infamous for by the beginning 1990s? What problems did it cause?

Essay Topic 2

What prompted Arab men to follow Cofer Black toward the end of his tour in Khartoum? What was the outcome?

Essay Topic 3

What was the cable draft that Timothy Carney found when he arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, in November 1996 that appalled him? What was ensured? What was the final outcome of that matter?

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