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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. How long after Trahan was injured at Shkin, was he sent to Iraq?

2. Where did Thomas Hutson grow up before he embarked on a Foreign Service career?

3. 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?

4. When did Lt. Col. Richard Phillips run a combat support hospital in eastern Afghanistan?

5. As the Taliban regrouped, how many major offensives had to be launched by the U.S. military at the latter half of 2003?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the American save Dostum's life?

2. Why did Army Maj. William Burley grow a beard when he went to Afghanistan?

3. Why did Maj. Christian Anderson complain about the training he received for his task of advising an Afghan border police unit?

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

5. What was Operation River Dance?

6. What did an Afghan general said about the three different types of Taliban in Chapter 8?

7. What were Richard Boucher's thoughts about dealing with warlords?

8. How did American struggle to determine whose side Pakistan was on?

9. What was one reason why the Afghan war dragged on so?

10. How did some U.S. officials say that the Bush administration looked away from Afghanistan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Corruption was rampant in Afghanistan. Who was responsible for the corruption in Afghanistan and why?

Essay Topic 2

The U.S. had a partnership with Afghan warlords. Why was it thought that the relationship with warlords was a necessary evil?

Essay Topic 3

The U.S. attempted a number of nation-building efforts in Afghanistan. Why were these efforts mostly unsuccessful?

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