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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. military begin making plans to take Baghdad?

2. When did Ryan Crocker become ambassador to Pakistan?

3. How many soccer balls did a second psy-ops team in Bagram distribute beginning in 2002?

4. When was Robert Gates summoned to meet with Bush in Chapter 9?

5. How old was Ryan Crocker, when he arrived to help reopen the shuttered U.S. embassy in Kabul and serve as acting ambassador?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did an Afghan general said about the three different types of Taliban in Chapter 8?

2. How did the American save Dostum's life?

3. What struggles did Lt. Gen. David Barno have when he was sent to Afghanistan 2003?

4. How did American struggle to determine whose side Pakistan was on?

5. What signs were there that Operation River Dance accomplished little?

6. At the end of Chapter 4, what was a high point of the Afghanistan war?

7. Why did Maj. Christian Anderson complain about the training he received for his task of advising an Afghan border police unit?

8. How did the war in Afghanistan transform Bush's political standing?

9. What did Rumsfeld tell reporters about spreading lies as the U.S. preared for war in Afghanistan?

10. How was Afghanistan different from when Ronald Neumann, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, visited there in 1967 and then returned in 2006?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Whitlock used a variety of sources to write his book. Why was it important for Whitlock to reveal the sources he used when writing the book? How does knowing the sources he used impact what readers think about the veracity of his account?

Essay Topic 2

Craig Whitlock is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post and has served as a foreign correspondent, Pentagon reporter, and national security specialist. Why did Whitlock write The Afghanistan Papers?

Essay Topic 3

False narratives were created about the Afghan war. Were these narratives outright lies or a prevarication?

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