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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. During the summer of 2006, how many times a week did Bickford and his unit clash with insurgents?
(a) 6.
(b) 4 or 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 3 or 4.

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

3. 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) 8 week.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 12 weeks.
(d) 10 weeks.

4. When did Lt. Col. Richard Phillips run a combat support hospital in eastern Afghanistan?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

5. What sport did Rumsfeld participate in at Princeton?
(a) Football.
(b) Wrestling.
(c) Rowing.
(d) Hockey.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. begin bombing Afghanistan?

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

3. In 2002, what percent of the staff in the Afghan Finance Ministry could not read or write?

4. When Ryan Crocker came to help reopen the U.S. embassy in Kabul, where was the closet functioning airport?

5. How long did Maj. Nikolai Andresky say that meetings had to be in Afghanistan at the minimum?

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