View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Clinton officials brief the incoming Bush staff on enforcing ___________ zones in Iraq.
(a) No fly
(b) Peace
(c) No bombing
(d) Civilian

2. Rumsfeld orders plans for the "Liberation of ____________" and postwar stability operations.
(a) Mosul
(b) Kabul
(c) Saddam
(d) Baghdad

3. George Tenet sends to small paramilitary teams into mountainous northern ____________.
(a) Iran
(b) Afghanistan
(c) Iraq
(d) Saudi Arabia

4. _________ is an ex-SEAL, fluent in Arabic, and tasked with leading a team of seven from Turkey to halfway to Baghdad.
(a) Paul
(b) Ned
(c) Tim
(d) Saul

5. Saddam in 1972 signed a ___________ with the Soviets to help make Iraq a Cold War pawn.
(a) Friendship Treaty
(b) War Promise
(c) Terrorist Prohibition
(d) War Plan

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumsfeld tangles with Powell about UN sanctions on ____________ items Powell knows the French and Russians want reconsidered.

2. Though the media says that Bush has highly detailed war plans, ____________says they are prepared, but have not decided to go to war.

3. Bush enjoys laying down the challenge, knowing that _____________ makes possible giving diplomacy a try.

4. Bush sends ___________ to demand the Pakastanis eliminate the threat of the answer to #13.

5. Saul asks for the job as no one else wants to head the "House of Broken _____."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Michael Gerson feel about the upcoming speech that he is writing for Bush's State of the Union?

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

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

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

5. What is Cheney sure will happen if they demand Saddam submit full WMD accounting?

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

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

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

9. What does Rumsfeld suspect which leads him to suggest using this information as a way, an opportunity, to attack Iraq?

10. What does Bush begin to demand that Iraq allows the United Nations to do within their country?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 565 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample