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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. On May 1, how long was Rumsfeld's trip to Kabul?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 8 hours.
(c) 1 days.
(d) 2 days.

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

3. On Mayt 1, 2003, in what aircraft carrier did Bush fly to and give a speech?
(a) USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) USS Abraham Lincoln.
(c) USS George Washington.
(d) USS Theodore Roosevelt.

4. How many interviews was The Afghanistan Papers based on?
(a) More than 1,000.
(b) 800.
(c) About 1,200.
(d) 900.

5. By the end of 2006, by what percent did the number of acres under cultivation for poppies increase?
(a) 48.
(b) 72.
(c) 61.
(d) 59.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ronald Neumann, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, spend a pleasant summer in Afghanistan?

2. How many soccer balls did a second psy-ops team in Bagram distribute beginning in 2002?

3. How long did it take to get the transcripts from the SIGAR interviews?

4. 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?

5. When Lute was appointed as war czar to coordinate strategy and police for Iraq and Afghanistan, how did he split his time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Rumsfeld's snowflakes?

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

3. Why was Afghanistan in need of nation-building in 2001?

4. How was the U.S. backed by NATO and others when it declared war against al-Qaeda?

5. What did Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute say about strategic thinking in regards to Afghanistan?

6. Who was Abdul Rashid Dostum?

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

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

9. How was Afghanistan different from when Ronald Neumann, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, visited there in 1967 and then returned in 2006?

10. How did Roger Pardo-Maurer describe Kandahar?

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