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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. What percent of Afghanistan was Sunni Muslim in Chapter 6?
(a) 68%.
(b) About 85%.
(c) 72%.
(d) Around 90%.

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

3. When Plummer first arrived in Kabul, out of 800 Afghan recruits, how many passed the marksmanship test?
(a) 75.
(b) 80.
(c) 70.
(d) 64.

4. 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) March 2009.
(b) May 2009.
(c) June 2009.
(d) April 2009.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many soccer balls did a second psy-ops team in Bagram distribute beginning in 2002?

2. When did the American embassy in Kabul close?

3. In Chapter 13, when did Obama give a speech about Afghanistan that he realized would be one of the most important of his presidency?

4. On December 21, 2015, how many were killed by a suicide bomber carrying explosive on a motorcycle near Bagram?

5. What timeline did Obama impose after agreeing to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2009?

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