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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Franks orders the _____________ to program missiles on Dora Farm, but they can not be fired until after the ultimatum period.
(a) Air Force
(b) Army
(c) Marines
(d) Navy

2. Wanting to keep the inspections non-confrontational, Blix turns down ____________ help in pointing out likely WMD locales.
(a) CIA
(b) NSA
(c) Cheney's
(d) FBI

3. Who exercises the special entry to the Oval Office and has since the days of elder Bush?
(a) Osama bin Laden
(b) Prince Abdullah
(c) Prince Bandar
(d) Donald Rumsfeld

4. What is the first full day of the Iraqi War according to the end of the book?
(a) March 22
(b) March 20
(c) March 21
(d) March 2

5. The White House Communications Office prepares a 33 page document - _____________ of Lies.
(a) Apparatus
(b) Meaning
(c) Body
(d) Evidence

6. The purpose of going into Iraq is to ______________, not to kill the regime as was done in Vietnam.
(a) Replace
(b) Avoid
(c) Remove
(d) Injure

7. Bush discusses the American backlash against __________ with Irish Prime Minister Ahern.
(a) Iran
(b) France
(c) Spain
(d) Britain

8. Blair visits Camp David in order to ask for a _____________________ for political purposes.
(a) Reprieve from sending troops
(b) Second UN resolution
(c) Sit down with Iraq
(d) Chance to send troops to Iraq

9. What is the top secret document Franks and Rumsfeld bring to Bush on March 4, named so to avoid legal requirements of disclosure to Congress?
(a) A Country in Need
(b) Pre-Decisonal Draft
(c) What to Do in Iraq Hypothetically
(d) Decison Time

10. Rumsfeld and Meyer assure Bush that Iraqi propaganda will make ________, no matter what the US does.
(a) Hay
(b) Changes
(c) Nonsense
(d) A difference

11. Powell is convinced ______________ has fixated on linking Saddam and al Qaeda as fact, whereas ambiguity exists.
(a) Rumsfeld
(b) Cheney
(c) Armitage
(d) Bush

12. What does Bush want from Poland when he goes to talk to them about the situation in Iraq?
(a) Support
(b) Troops
(c) Land
(d) Weaponry

13. ____________ wants everything kept secret, but needs the same details on US war planning that he received in 1991.
(a) Dick Cheney
(b) Donald Rumsfeld
(c) Prince Bandar
(d) George H. W. Bush

14. Cheney convinces Bush to have military personnel and high risk essential civilians to be inoculated against ___________.
(a) Smallpox
(b) Anthrax
(c) Malaria
(d) Cholera

15. _________ wants to begin raising money in February through April , but Bush flatly refuses.
(a) Laura Bush
(b) Karl Rove
(c) Dick Cheney
(d) Scooter Libby

Short Answer Questions

1. Franks sends Rumsfeld the _________________, the Mother of All Deployment Orders for 300,000 troops.

2. Who is the logical choice for presenting the case to the United Nations?

3. Rumsfeld's idea of dribbling deployment works and he holds off on big call-ups of reservists until after ____________.

4. 25,000 top ___________ officials need to be removed as a part of post-Saddam regime planning.

5. Bush notes that it is __________ decision whether there is war or not.

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