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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. When did an Afghan driver fatally shoot two Spanish police officers who had worked closely with him for six months?
(a) June 2010.
(b) September 2010.
(c) July 2010.
(d) August 2010.

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

3. How old was Ryan Crocker, when he arrived to help reopen the shuttered U.S. embassy in Kabul and serve as acting ambassador?
(a) 47.
(b) 50.
(c) 49.
(d) 52.

4. In January 2002, how much money did the Afghan interim government request a year to train and equip 200,000 soldiers?
(a) $520 million.
(b) $466 million.
(c) $605 million.
(d) $388 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Afghan recruits did Jack Kem estimate could read at a third-grade level?

2. When were a team of Navy SEALs sent on a secret mission to raid a compound in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was rumored to be hiding?

3. In Chapter 17, about how many personnel did the Afghan Local Police have?

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

5. When did U.S. military commanders belatedly begin a campaign to root out corruption and clean up the Afghan government?

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