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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What country accepted the task of creating a new Afghan police force?
2. When did the U.S. military take over most of the responsibility for training the Afghan police?
3. In June 2008, how long had McNeill been in Afghanistan?
4. When did bin Laden and al-Qaeda declare war aginst the U.S.?
5. How large was the patrol Trahan organized to investigate the report that a dozen heavily armed men dressed in black crossed the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was imposing a strong, centralized government in Afghanistan foolish according to American soldiers and Lt. Col. Todd Guggisberg?
2. At the end of Chapter 4, what was a high point of the Afghanistan war?
3. Why did Maj. Christian Anderson complain about the training he received for his task of advising an Afghan border police unit?
4. What problems were there with the U.S. building a security force in Afghanistan?
5. Why was Afghanistan in need of nation-building in 2001?
6. What happened on February 27, 2007, at Bagram Air Base?
7. Why did Army Maj. William Burley grow a beard when he went to Afghanistan?
8. How did Roger Pardo-Maurer describe Kandahar?
9. Who was Abdul Rashid Dostum?
10. How were Special Forces team mobiled to influence the emotions, thinking and behavior of ordinary Afghans and their leaders and how successful were they?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Books can be structured and divided in different ways. How does the structure of a book provide clarity and flow to a narrative? What are section and chapter titles? What are some purposes of section and chapter titles? How does Whitlock use section and chapter titles in The Afghanistan Papers?
Essay Topic 2
There seemed to be no “coherent long-term strategy” (105) in Afghanistan. What strategies were tried in Afghanistan, and how did they affect operations in the country?
Essay Topic 3
Metaphors and similes are figures of speech that are used to make comparisons between things. Metaphors seem to imply an equal comparison, while similes seem to imply a similarity between two things. Does Whitlock use more metaphors or similes in The Afghanistan Papers? How does the use of metaphors or similes help readers comprehend concepts? How does the use of metaphors or similes help make the writing more interesting?
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