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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: The Great Distraction, 2003-2005.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after Trahan was injured at Shkin, was he sent to Iraq?
(a) 7 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 5 months.

2. In 2001, how many Afghans had fled the country as refugees?
(a) Around 4 million.
(b) About 3 million.
(c) 2,500,000.
(d) 1,750,000.

3. When Ryan Crocker came to help reopen the U.S. embassy in Kabul, where was the closet functioning airport?
(a) 45 miles.
(b) 30 miles.
(c) 50 miles.
(d) 20 miles.

4. When did Germany agree to over see Afghan police training?
(a) Early 2002.
(b) Summer 2002.
(c) Late 2002.
(d) Spring 2002.

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?
(a) May 2004.
(b) February 2004.
(c) January 2004.
(d) April 2004.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what time had most al-Qaeda followers left Afghanistan and fled to Pakistan, iran, and other countries?

2. Over 20 years, how much would Washington spend on security assistance to the Afghan government?

3. How many interviews was The Afghanistan Papers based on?

4. Where did Thomas Hutson grow up before he embarked on a Foreign Service career?

5. When did Ryan Crocker become ambassador to Pakistan?

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