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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. Bush wants Congress to pass a resolution supporting ______________ against Saddam.
(a) UN discussions
(b) Military force
(c) Economic sanctions
(d) Terrorism

2. What does the false story about the regime include in order to sell the war plans?
(a) Dirty bombs
(b) Economic sanctions
(c) Planned train malfunctions
(d) Trade embargoes

3. Using stoplight graphics that Bush enjoys, Franks charts ________ of when month-by-month events can and should proceed.
(a) Timings
(b) Goalposts
(c) Deadlines
(d) Expectations

4. Rice explains how ____________ can serve as a model for nuclear disarmament.
(a) Zimbabwe
(b) South Africa
(c) North Korea
(d) The United States

5. ___________ targets November 2002 through February 2003 for the war start, but insists he will launch anytime the President orders.
(a) Colin Powell
(b) Dick Cheney
(c) Donald Rumsfeld
(d) Tommy Franks

Short Answer Questions

1. Franks delivers the ____________ meaning that the full force would be generated in the region before fighting starts.

2. Michael V. Hayden is Director of the _____________, heading a staff of 32,000 people.

3. Powell is beginning to show his anger at always being below ____________ in the pecking order.

4. Ground commanders will know their foes better than they know themselves by accessing the secure ______________.

5. The ____________ worries about short munitions and the effect on efforts in Afghanistan.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the position and the responsibility of Michael V. Hayden?

2. What do the Marines worry about in relation to conflict in Iraq?

3. What does George W. Bush tell Rumsfeld on November 21, 2001 in a private aside?

4. What is the definition of targeting that Rumsfeld wants to talk about with others?

5. What does Powell recall which he is beginning to believe he is seeing within this war planning process?

6. What does Saul tell Cheney about Saddam which proves to be a sobering fact for the Vice President?

7. What does the Central Intelligence Agency never really come out and say categorically?

8. What is Wolfowitz's strategy that Colin Powell believes to be absurd when he advocates it?

9. What does Ari Fleischer say to the press in response to the story in the NY Times that Bush has highly detailed war plans?

10. What does Hayden foresee about the conflict in Iraq that will cause strain to the NSA?

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