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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. 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) Petraeus.
(d) Rumsfeld.

2. In 2006, where did the British move forces into Afghanistan?
(a) Kabul.
(b) Kandahar.
(c) Uruzgan.
(d) Helmand province.

3. When did British Gen. David Richards lead U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan?
(a) 2005 to 2006.
(b) 2004 to 2005.
(c) 2007 to 2008.
(d) 2006 to 2007.

4. When did Zalmay Khalilzad believe the U.S. should have sat down and talked with the Taliban?
(a) December 2002.
(b) December 2004.
(c) December 2003.
(d) December 2001.

5. When Plummer first arrived in Kabul, out of 800 Afghan recruits, how many passed the marksmanship test?
(a) 75.
(b) 64.
(c) 80.
(d) 70.

Short Answer Questions

1. When in 2003 were the Jordanian embassy and United Nations headquarters in Baghdad blown up by insurgents?

2. When did Germany agree to over see Afghan police training?

3. How many people were killed at the Pentagon when American Airlines flight 77 hit the building?

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

5. According to General Peter Pace, how long beginning in December 2003 did Rumsfeld become "very ill" (52)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were Special Forces team mobiled to influence the emotions, thinking and behavior of ordinary Afghans and their leaders and how successful were they?

2. What was one reason why the Afghan war dragged on so?

3. What was Operation River Dance?

4. How did Roger Pardo-Maurer describe Kandahar?

5. What transportation does Bush take when he gives an adddress on May 1, 2003 and where does he give his address?

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

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

8. What was Bagram like when the war started and how did it change?

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

10. What happened on February 27, 2007, at Bagram Air Base?

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