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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 35,000.
(b) About 40,000.
(c) 45,000.
(d) At least 30,000.

2. By the time Obama left the White House in January 2017, how many troops remained in Afghanistan?
(a) 11,400.
(b) About 19,000.
(c) 9,600.
(d) About 8,400.

3. When did Karzai establish an Afghan High Peace Council to coordinate overtures with senior Taliban figures?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2012.

4. How often did Ryan Crocker eat breakfast with Karzai in Chapter 14?
(a) A couple times a week.
(b) Almost every day.
(c) Once a week.
(d) Every other day.

5. In Chapter 17, how many U.S. Army soldiers were murdered when men who had enlisted in the Afghan National Police ambushed them from the rear at close range?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ethnic group in Afghanistan sympathized or supported the Taliban jihad against foreign soldiers?

2. When did Sen. Susan Collins ask Michele Flournoy at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing how the Obama administration would know if the troop surge was successful?

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. Once the Navy SEALs entered a compound in Abbottabad, how long did it take them to find and kill bin Laden?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Gen. David McKiernan fired in 2009?

2. Why were poppies easier to cultivate than other crops amid all the fighting?

3. What information did Sherkhan Farnood provide U.S. officials about the Kabul Bank?

4. What did a senior U.S. official who served as a civilian in Afghanistan say about Obama's surge strategy being a mistake?

5. What report on the war did Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess provide in February 2012 to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

6. How did insider assaults increase in 2012?

7. Why were transportation costs high for the supplies the U.S. military needed?

8. What went wrong with an airstrike on July 6, 2008?

9. After bin Laden was killed, what did Panetta tell reporters about how his death affected the war on terror?

10. How did the plans for Afghanistan become more secret under Trump?

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