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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. 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?
(a) 35.
(b) Around 50.
(c) 60.
(d) About 40.

2. How long at then-Capt. Gregory Trahan been at Firebase Shkiin when there was a report of a dozen heavily armed men dressed in black who crossed the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan?
(a) 10 weeks.
(b) 8 week.
(c) 12 weeks.
(d) 6 weeks.

3. After December 2001, how long did it take before the U.S. could pinpoint bin Laden's location again?
(a) A dozen years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) A decade.

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

5. When did Ryan Crocker become ambassador to Pakistan?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2003.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first U.S. Special Operations forces enter Afghanistan?

2. Where did Thomas Hutson grow up before he embarked on a Foreign Service career?

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 6, for how long did most troops deploy to the war zone in Afghanistan?

5. During the early part of the war, where did soldiers have to fly their dirty laundry?

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