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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Things Fall Apart, 2011-2016.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Marine Gen. John Allen serve as commander of U.S. and NATO forces?
(a) 23 months.
(b) 15 months.
(c) 19 months.
(d) 18 months.

2. Where did Thomas Hutson grow up before he embarked on a Foreign Service career?
(a) Red Cloud, Nebraska.
(b) Emerson, Nebraska.
(c) Blue Hill, Nebraska.
(d) Franklin, Nebraska.

3. In Chapter 4, when did Rumsfeld give a speech in Phoenix citing indicators of progress in Afghanistan?
(a) September 2004.
(b) July 2004.
(c) June 2004.
(d) August 2004.

4. As of August 2020, how many female U.S. troops had been killed in Afghanistan?
(a) 55.
(b) 60.
(c) 42.
(d) 39.

5. How many soldiers were injured in the killings in Zabul in 2012?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Maj. Nikolai Andresky say that meetings had to be in Afghanistan at the minimum?

2. When did Ryan Crocker become ambassador to Pakistan?

3. In 2006, how long did Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey believe it would take the Afghan security forces to be able to operate without U.S. help?

4. Once the Navy SEALs entered a compound in Abbottabad, how long did it take them to find and kill bin Laden?

5. When did Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-American diplomat and new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan write an op-ed in The Washington Post praising the Afghans for holding a traditional assembly to draft a new constitution?

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