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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) 1966.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1967.

2. When did Marin Strmecki, a trusted civilian adviser deliver a 40-page classified report titled, "Afghanistan at a Crossroads" (98)?
(a) August 29, 2006.
(b) August 24, 2006.
(c) August 2, 2006.
(d) August 17, 2006.

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

4. How long did Maj. Nikolai Andresky say that meetings had to be in Afghanistan at the minimum?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 5 hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 6 hours.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Lute was appointed as war czar to coordinate strategy and police for Iraq and Afghanistan, how did he split his time?

3. 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?

4. By the time Obama left the White House in January 2017, how many troops remained in Afghanistan?

5. What VIP guest was at Bagram in 2007, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the second checkpoint?

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