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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the 2001 Bonn Agreement, was the Afghan traditional assembly of elders and leaders supposed to write a constitution?
(a) Within 2 years.
(b) 2 1/2 years.
(c) 1 1/2 years.
(d) Within 3 years.

4. When did Lt. Col. Richard Phillips run a combat support hospital in eastern Afghanistan?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2007.

5. 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?
(a) April 30, 2003.
(b) April 9, 2003.
(c) April 25, 2003.
(d) April 19, 2003.

6. 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?
(a) Around 50.
(b) 60.
(c) About 40.
(d) 35.

7. On Mayt 1, 2003, in what aircraft carrier did Bush fly to and give a speech?
(a) USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) USS Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) USS George Washington.
(d) USS Abraham Lincoln.

8. When Lute was appointed as war czar to coordinate strategy and police for Iraq and Afghanistan, how did he split his time?
(a) 75% on Iraq and 25% on Afghanistan.
(b) 70% on Iraq and 30% on Afghanistan.
(c) 85% on Iraq and 15% on Afghanistan.
(d) 80% on Iraq and 20% on Afghanistan.

9. What branch of service did Bush fly with when he used to be a fighter pilot?
(a) Navy.
(b) Texas Air National Guard.
(c) Air Force.
(d) Colorado Air National Guard.

10. How many soccer balls did a second psy-ops team in Bagram distribute beginning in 2002?
(a) About 1,500.
(b) 900.
(c) More than 1,000.
(d) 750.

11. When did the first U.S. Special Operations forces enter Afghanistan?
(a) October 19.
(b) October 15.
(c) October 10.
(d) October 17.

12. In 2006, how much worse did Staff Sgt. John Bickford believe the fighting in Afghanistan was from the first time he was in Afghanistan three years before?
(a) 20 times.
(b) 10 times.
(c) 5 times.
(d) 15 times.

13. Where did Thomas Hutson, a Dari speaker who served as a political officer, suggest that Dostum go for medical treatment?
(a) Grenadines.
(b) Barbados.
(c) Grenada.
(d) Martinique.

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

15. On February 27, 2007, how did the suicide bomber arrive at Bagram Air Base?
(a) Toyota Corolla.
(b) Mazda MPV.
(c) Honda Accord.
(d) Ford Escort.

Short Answer Questions

1. In January 2002, how much money did the Afghan interim government request a year to train and equip 200,000 soldiers?

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

3. When did the American embassy in Kabul close?

4. When did the U.S. Agency for International Development build irrigation canals in the Helmand River valley?

5. When in 2003 were the Jordanian embassy and United Nations headquarters in Baghdad blown up by insurgents?

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