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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Things Fall Apart, 2011-2016.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-American diplomat and new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan write an op-ed in The Washington Post praising the Afghans for holding a traditional assembly to draft a new constitution?
(a) May 2004.
(b) February 2004.
(c) April 2004.
(d) January 2004.

3. When did Maj. Christopher Plummer, an infantry officer, arrive in Kabul to coordinate training and fielding for the Afghan army?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

4. In Chapter 11, what type of tractors were used in March 2006 to destroy poppy fields?
(a) Massey Ferguson.
(b) Case IH.
(c) Kubota.
(d) John Deere.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Obama when a ceremony was held at the headquarters in Kabul to mark his promise to end the war?

2. In 2008, how far from Bagram did Black Hawk helicopters carrying Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel have to make an emergency landing in a snowstorm?

3. How many tons of opium did Afghan narcotics find when they raided Sher Mohammad Akhundzada's offices in 2005?

4. In 2001, of the Taliban captives who suffocated in shipping containers, where were they buried?

5. 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?

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