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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. How many assailants were responsible for the killings in Zabul in 2012?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

2. When did an Afghan driver fatally shoot two Spanish police officers who had worked closely with him for six months?
(a) September 2010.
(b) August 2010.
(c) July 2010.
(d) June 2010.

3. When did the U.S. military take over most of the responsibility for training the Afghan police?
(a) Spring 2005.
(b) Winter 2005.
(c) Fall 2005.
(d) Summer 2005.

4. 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?
(a) 20 miles.
(b) 8 miles.
(c) 17 miles.
(d) 12 miles.

5. As the Taliban regrouped, how many major offensives had to be launched by the U.S. military at the latter half of 2003?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Pentagon statistics in Chapter 7, how many times had more than 28,000 troops deployed to Afghanistan?

2. In Chapter 4, when did Rumsfeld give a speech in Phoenix citing indicators of progress in Afghanistan?

3. In 2006, how much of people's income of the Helmand province came from selling poppy?

4. In Chapter 17, about how many personnel did the Afghan Local Police have?

5. 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?

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