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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) 18.
(d) 16.

2. When did Director of National Intelligence James Clapper serve as an analyst briefer for General William Westmoreland in Vietnam?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1965.

3. When Gert Berthold, a forensic accountant, helped to analyze 3,000 Defense Department Contracts to see who was benefiting, what percent of the money went to the Taliban and other insurgent groups?
(a) About 18%.
(b) Not quite 20%.
(c) 23%.
(d) 31%.

4. What timeline did Obama impose after agreeing to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2009?
(a) 24 months.
(b) 12 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 36 months.

5. In the five years between 2009 and 2014, how did the number of Afghan civilians getting killed increase?
(a) 39 percent.
(b) 68 percent.
(c) 53 percent.
(d) 41 percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By the end of Obama's second term in office, how many Afghan soldiers did U.S. officials determine did not exist and removed their position from the army payroll?

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

4. By September 2017 by some estimates, how many Afghan soldiers and police were killed daily?

5. By 2009, how long had Gates been defense secretary?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Operation Iron Tempest, and why was it not successful?

5. What did Obama have to say about Afghanistan on December 1, 2009?

6. What attack occurred on December 21, 2015?

7. After bin Laden was killed, what did Panetta tell reporters about how his death affected the war on terror?

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

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

10. What public image did Petraeus and McChrystal have?

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