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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the U.S. military take over most of the responsibility for training the Afghan police?
(a) Spring 2005.
(b) Fall 2005.
(c) Winter 2005.
(d) Summer 2005.

2. 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) 12 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 8 week.
(d) 10 weeks.

3. 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?
(a) 60.
(b) About 40.
(c) 35.
(d) Around 50.

4. In 2005, where did Maj. Daniel Lovett have pre-deployment training?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Texas.
(d) North Carolina.

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) President George Bush.
(c) Rumsfeld.
(d) Petraeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of civil war did the warlords have behind them in Chapter 10?

2. When did the U.S. military begin making plans to take Baghdad?

3. In January 2002, how much money did the Afghan interim government request a year to train and equip 200,000 soldiers?

4. In 2006, how long did Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey believe it would take the Afghan security forces to be able to operate without U.S. help?

5. As the Taliban regrouped, how many major offensives had to be launched by the U.S. military at the latter half of 2003?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did American struggle to determine whose side Pakistan was on?

2. What were Richard Boucher's thoughts about dealing with warlords?

3. How did some U.S. officials say that the Bush administration looked away from Afghanistan?

4. What were Rumsfeld's snowflakes?

5. What signs were there that Operation River Dance accomplished little?

6. Why was imposing a strong, centralized government in Afghanistan foolish according to American soldiers and Lt. Col. Todd Guggisberg?

7. What did ISI leader Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Kayani say when Ryan Crocker asked him to crack down against Taliban leaders believed to be seeking refuge in Pakistan?

8. What problems were there with the U.S. building a security force in Afghanistan?

9. Why did Maj. Christian Anderson complain about the training he received for his task of advising an Afghan border police unit?

10. How did the war in Afghanistan transform Bush's political standing?

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