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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. Who was the Afghan bureau chief for the ISI from 1983-1987?

2. The success of the CIA depended on Hart's ability to work with Akhtar due Rahman in developing what list?

3. In Chapter Five, what did CIA director William Casey advise President Ronald Reagan about their Afghanistan campaign?

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

5. By September 1994, which two nations stopped funding activities in Afghanistan?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?

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

4. How did the 1994 assassination attempt on bin Laden transpire?

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

6. From which stations did the CIA maintain the greatest amount of detailed intelligence collected regarding Middle Eastern radical Islamic movements during the early 1990s?

7. How was Paul Pillar described when he arrived at the Counterterrorist Center in Chapter 14?

8. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

9. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was author Steve Coll referring to when he noted an adviser to Ahmed Shah Massoud recalled a roughly translated Afghan phrase that went, "'Your mouth cannot be sweet when you talk about honey; you must have honey in your mouth'"?

Essay Topic 2

What was the title of Chapter 17, "Dangling the Carrot," in reference to? Why did Unocal's Marty Miller get out of his truck when it crossed into Pakistan at the conclusion of the chapter, kiss the ground, then do a little jig?

Essay Topic 3

What was the new crop of terrorists that American intelligence recognized had emerged by mid-1995?

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