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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Obama's Overreach, 2009-2010.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Soviet invade Afghanistan?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1979.

2. In 2005, where did Maj. Daniel Lovett have pre-deployment training?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Texas.

3. How many Afghans were killed when a State Department-leased aircraft crashed into mud-brick houses in Helmand on April 24, 2006?
(a) Not quite 20.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) About 15.

4. What country accepted the task of creating a new Afghan police force?
(a) Germans.
(b) French.
(c) Italians.
(d) British.

5. When did Ronald Neumann, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, spend a pleasant summer in Afghanistan?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1967.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 2001 Bonn Agreement, was the Afghan traditional assembly of elders and leaders supposed to write a constitution?

2. By the end of 2006, by what percent did the number of acres under cultivation for poppies increase?

3. How many people were killed in New York city, northern Virginia, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania in the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

4. When did Lt. Col. Richard Phillips run a combat support hospital in eastern Afghanistan?

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

(see the answer key)

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