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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. When did bin Laden and al-Qaeda declare war aginst the U.S.?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1997.

2. When did Marin Strmecki, a trusted civilian adviser deliver a 40-page classified report titled, "Afghanistan at a Crossroads" (98)?
(a) August 29, 2006.
(b) August 24, 2006.
(c) August 2, 2006.
(d) August 17, 2006.

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

4. When did the American embassy in Kabul close?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1991

5. What VIP guest was at Bagram in 2007, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the second checkpoint?
(a) Vice President Dick Cheney.
(b) Petraeus.
(c) Rumsfeld.
(d) President George Bush.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2008, how far from Bagram did Black Hawk helicopters carrying Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel have to make an emergency landing in a snowstorm?

2. In Chapter 7, when did a CIA Predator drone glimpse a dozen heavily armed men dressed in black and cross the Pakistan border into Afghanistan near Firebase Shikin?

3. How many Afghans were killed when a State Department-leased aircraft crashed into mud-brick houses in Helmand on April 24, 2006?

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

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

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