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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: The Taliban Comes Back, 2006-2008.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As of August 2020, how many female U.S. troops had been killed in Afghanistan?
(a) 55.
(b) 60.
(c) 39.
(d) 42.

2. Where did Thomas Hutson grow up before he embarked on a Foreign Service career?
(a) Franklin, Nebraska.
(b) Emerson, Nebraska.
(c) Red Cloud, Nebraska.
(d) Blue Hill, Nebraska.

3. How many years of civil war did the warlords have behind them in Chapter 10?
(a) 35.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

4. In the 2001 Bonn Agreement, was the Afghan traditional assembly of elders and leaders supposed to write a constitution?
(a) Within 2 years.
(b) 2 1/2 years.
(c) Within 3 years.
(d) 1 1/2 years.

5. In 2001, of the Taliban captives who suffocated in shipping containers, where were they buried?
(a) Nangarhar.
(b) Baghlan.
(c) Sheberghan.
(d) Faryab.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 2006, how much of Afghanistan's entire economic output did U.S. officials estimate that poppies powered?

2. In 2006, how much of people's income of the Helmand province came from selling poppy?

3. In 2005, where did Maj. Daniel Lovett have pre-deployment training?

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

5. How old was Ryan Crocker, when he arrived to help reopen the shuttered U.S. embassy in Kabul and serve as acting ambassador?

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