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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. How many sleeping villagers did Staff Sgt. Robert Bales kill in two Afghan villages in Kandahar in 2012?
(a) 21.
(b) 11.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

2. When did President Joe Biden promise to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan?
(a) January 1, 2021.
(b) September 11, 2021.
(c) June 1, 2021.
(d) December 31, 2021.

3. Where did ta Taliban delegation and the American meet for two weeks in February and March 2019?
(a) Jordan.
(b) Bahrain.
(c) Qatar.
(d) Yemen.

4. In Chapter 20, how many people were estimated to live in Helmand?
(a) 1 million to 2 million.
(b) 500,000 to 1 million.
(c) 900,000 to 2 million.
(d) 750,000 to 3 million.

5. When was Operation Iron Tempest launched?
(a) September 2017.
(b) November 2017.
(c) October 2017.
(d) December 2017.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Army Gen. Scott Miller's son, Austin, when the Afghan war started?

2. How much money did Farnood say that Kabul Bank had given to Karzai's reelection campaign?

3. Hoiw far behind the times were Afghan farmers?

4. What ethnic group in Afghanistan sympathized or supported the Taliban jihad against foreign soldiers?

5. How many years early was Haji Lal Jan Ishaqzai released after he was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to prison for trafficking opium?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret mission was Leon Panetta praying would work on May 1, 2011, and what was the outcome of the mission?

2. Why were transportation costs high for the supplies the U.S. military needed?

3. What report on the war did Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess provide in February 2012 to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

4. What opportunities had the U.S. missed to talk peace with the Taliban?

5. What did James Dobbins believe was the key benchmark that revealed the success of the war efforts in Afghanistan?

6. In Chapter 16, why was Obama's war strategy failing?

7. What information did Sherkhan Farnood provide U.S. officials about the Kabul Bank?

8. What problems were there with the plan to rebuild the aging hydroelectric power station at the Kajaki Dam?

9. How did the plans for Afghanistan become more secret under Trump?

10. Why was it ironic that the Taliban met in Qatar to discuss peace with the U.S.?

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