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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: The Great Distraction, 2003-2005.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By December 2001, how many troops were on the ground in all of Afghanistan?
(a) 2,225.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 3,400.
(d) 3,000.

3. When Ryan Crocker came to help reopen the U.S. embassy in Kabul, where was the closet functioning airport?
(a) 50 miles.
(b) 30 miles.
(c) 45 miles.
(d) 20 miles.

4. When did Zalmay Khalilzad believe the U.S. should have sat down and talked with the Taliban?
(a) December 2001.
(b) December 2002.
(c) December 2004.
(d) December 2003.

5. According to General Peter Pace, how long beginning in December 2003 did Rumsfeld become "very ill" (52)?
(a) 12 weeks.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 2 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport did Rumsfeld participate in at Princeton?

2. What percent of Afghanistan was Sunni Muslim in Chapter 6?

3. By what time had most al-Qaeda followers left Afghanistan and fled to Pakistan, iran, and other countries?

4. How long after Trahan was injured at Shkin, was he sent to Iraq?

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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