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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 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?
(a) June 2009.
(b) May 2009.
(c) April 2009.
(d) March 2009.

2. In 2006, how long did Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey believe it would take the Afghan security forces to be able to operate without U.S. help?
(a) 17 years.
(b) 14 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 8 years.

3. Where did Thomas Hutson, a Dari speaker who served as a political officer, suggest that Dostum go for medical treatment?
(a) Grenadines.
(b) Barbados.
(c) Grenada.
(d) Martinique.

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

5. When did the U.S. Agency for International Development build irrigation canals in the Helmand River valley?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the five years between 2009 and 2014, how did the number of Afghan civilians getting killed increase?

2. How large was the patrol Trahan organized to investigate the report that a dozen heavily armed men dressed in black crossed the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan?

3. In 2006, how much worse did Staff Sgt. John Bickford believe the fighting in Afghanistan was from the first time he was in Afghanistan three years before?

4. On February 27, 2007, how did the suicide bomber arrive at Bagram Air Base?

5. On Mayt 1, 2003, in what aircraft carrier did Bush fly to and give a speech?

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