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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6: Stalmate, 2017-2021.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee that Obama's troop surge and war strategy did little to deter the insurgency?
(a) April 2012.
(b) January 2012.
(c) February 2012.
(d) March 2012.

2. How long after the invasion of Iraq did Bush take a Navy warplane to an aircraft carrier?
(a) 5 weeks.
(b) 7 weeks.
(c) 8 weeks.
(d) 6 weeks.

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?
(a) April 2004.
(b) May 2004.
(c) January 2004.
(d) February 2004.

4. When Lute was appointed as war czar to coordinate strategy and police for Iraq and Afghanistan, how did he split his time?
(a) 75% on Iraq and 25% on Afghanistan.
(b) 80% on Iraq and 20% on Afghanistan.
(c) 85% on Iraq and 15% on Afghanistan.
(d) 70% on Iraq and 30% on Afghanistan.

5. How many Afghans were killed when a State Department-leased aircraft crashed into mud-brick houses in Helmand on April 24, 2006?
(a) 18.
(b) About 15.
(c) 12.
(d) Not quite 20.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was annual reconstruction aid to Afghanistan in 2010?

3. When was Operation Iron Tempest launched?

4. When did Fahim Khan die of natural causes?

5. 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?

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