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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 assailants were responsible for the killings in Zabul in 2012?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

2. When was Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl captured by insurgents?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2011.

3. When did an Afghan driver fatally shoot two Spanish police officers who had worked closely with him for six months?
(a) June 2010.
(b) July 2010.
(c) September 2010.
(d) August 2010.

4. How many Afghan recruits did Jack Kem estimate could read at a third-grade level?
(a) 8%.
(b) 3%.
(c) 2-4%.
(d) 2-5%..

5. In Chapter 19, within three months after Trump agreed to keep the troop increase in Afghanistan open-ended, how many additional troops were sent?
(a) 4,700.
(b) 5,900.
(c) 5,600.
(d) 4,300.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Marine Gen. John Allen serve as commander of U.S. and NATO forces?

2. What timeline did Obama impose after agreeing to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2009?

3. Where was Obama when a ceremony was held at the headquarters in Kabul to mark his promise to end the war?

4. Once the Navy SEALs entered a compound in Abbottabad, how long did it take them to find and kill bin Laden?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the main points of Trump's speech on August 21, 2017?

2. What public image did Petraeus and McChrystal have?

3. Why was it difficult to hold opium drug lords accountable?

4. What did President Joe Biden say when he annnounced his decision regarding Afghanistan?

5. How did the owner of a construction firm profit from sabotage?

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

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

8. Why was Gen. David McKiernan fired in 2009?

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

10. What attack occurred on December 21, 2015?

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