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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. military take over most of the responsibility for training the Afghan police?
(a) Winter 2005.
(b) Fall 2005.
(c) Summer 2005.
(d) Spring 2005.

2. 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) January 2004.
(b) April 2004.
(c) May 2004.
(d) February 2004.

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

4. How many years of civil war did the warlords have behind them in Chapter 10?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 35.

5. In 2006, how much of people's income of the Helmand province came from selling poppy?
(a) 80%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 85%.
(d) 95%.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were a team of Navy SEALs sent on a secret mission to raid a compound in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was rumored to be hiding?

2. In 2009, how many illegal votes did Karzai receive?

3. In 2008, how far from Bagram did Black Hawk helicopters carrying Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel have to make an emergency landing in a snowstorm?

4. In Chapter 7, when did a CIA Predator drone glimpse a dozen heavily armed men dressed in black and cross the Pakistan border into Afghanistan near Firebase Shikin?

5. In Chapter 4, when did Rumsfeld give a speech in Phoenix citing indicators of progress in Afghanistan?

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