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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. When did the U.S. begin bombing Afghanistan?
(a) October 7, 2001.
(b) October 13, 2001.
(c) October 2, 2001.
(d) October 27, 2001.

2. What VIP guest was at Bagram in 2007, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the second checkpoint?
(a) President George Bush.
(b) Vice President Dick Cheney.
(c) Rumsfeld.
(d) Petraeus.

3. According to General Peter Pace, how long beginning in December 2003 did Rumsfeld become "very ill" (52)?
(a) 8 weeks.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 12 weeks.

4. How long were the circuits McChrystal would run while listening to audio books?
(a) 6 miles.
(b) 5 miles.
(c) 7 miles.
(d) 8 miles.

5. When in 2003 were the Jordanian embassy and United Nations headquarters in Baghdad blown up by insurgents?
(a) September.
(b) July.
(c) June.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Ryan Crocker, when he arrived to help reopen the shuttered U.S. embassy in Kabul and serve as acting ambassador?

2. How large was the patrol Trahan organized to investigate the report that a dozen heavily armed men dressed in black crossed the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan?

3. How many people were killed at the Pentagon when American Airlines flight 77 hit the building?

4. By the end of Obama's second term in office, how many Afghan soldiers did U.S. officials determine did not exist and removed their position from the army payroll?

5. How many Afghan recruits did Jack Kem estimate could read at a third-grade level?

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