2. When did Ronald Neumann, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, spend a pleasant summer in Afghanistan?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1965.

3. 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.

4. When did the U.S. military begin making plans to take Baghdad?
(a) December 2001.
(b) November 2001.
(c) February 2002.
(d) January 2002.

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

6. How long at then-Capt. Gregory Trahan been at Firebase Shkiin when there was a report of a dozen heavily armed men dressed in black who crossed the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan?
(a) 6 weeks.
(b) 12 weeks.
(c) 10 weeks.
(d) 8 week.

7. In 2014, how much money did The Washington Post report that Dostum had been receiving monthly in CIA funds routed through the Afghan president palace?
(a) $55, 000.
(b) $15,000.
(c) $35,000.
(d) $70,000.

8. When did Fahim Khan die of natural causes?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2013.

9. When did bin Laden and al-Qaeda declare war aginst the U.S.?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1995.

10. How many Afghans were killed when a State Department-leased aircraft crashed into mud-brick houses in Helmand on April 24, 2006?
(a) About 15.
(b) 18.
(c) Not quite 20.
(d) 12.

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

12. In 2008 with the addition of 3,000 troops, how large was the U.S. force in Afghanistan?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 31,000.
(c) 28,000.
(d) 36,000.

13. When did the American embassy in Kabul close?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1991

14. By December 2001, how many troops were on the ground in all of Afghanistan?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 3,400.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 2,225.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many people were killed in New York city, northern Virginia, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania in the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

3. As of August 2020, how many female U.S. troops had been killed in Afghanistan?

4. On Mayt 1, 2003, in what aircraft carrier did Bush fly to and give a speech?

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

(see the answer keys)

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