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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6: Stalmate, 2017-2021.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between 2001 and 2020, how much money did the U.S. allocated for reconstruction, aid programs, and Afghan security forces?
(a) $119 billion.
(b) $137 billion.
(c) $122 billion.
(d) $143 billion.

2. When did Zalmay Khalilzad believe the U.S. should have sat down and talked with the Taliban?
(a) December 2004.
(b) December 2002.
(c) December 2001.
(d) December 2003.

3. When did Director of National Intelligence James Clapper serve as an analyst briefer for General William Westmoreland in Vietnam?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1965.

4. In Chapter 21 when the U.S. military and Afghan anti-narcotics officials confiscated or destroyed tens of thousands of kilos of opium annually, what percent of the opium Afghanistan produced was destroyed?
(a) 1%.
(b) 5%.
(c) Not quite 3%.
(d) Less than 2%.

5. When did Taliban gunmen assassinate Karzai's father?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did ta Taliban delegation and the American meet for two weeks in February and March 2019?

2. When Ryan Crocker came to help reopen the U.S. embassy in Kabul, where was the closet functioning airport?

3. When was Panetta in Afghanistan for a visit when an Afghan assailant drove a stolen truck onto the tarmac and tried to run over a U.S. Marine general and others in Panetta's welcoming party?

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. When did the first U.S. Special Operations forces enter Afghanistan?

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