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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 was annual reconstruction aid to Afghanistan in 2010?

2. When did Director of National Intelligence James Clapper serve as an analyst briefer for General William Westmoreland in Vietnam?

3. In 2014, what was the sum of improper loans from Kabul Bank that had still not been repaid?

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

5. How many Afghan recruits did Jack Kem estimate could read at a third-grade level?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did a senior U.S. official who served as a civilian in Afghanistan say about Obama's surge strategy being a mistake?

2. What went wrong with an airstrike on July 6, 2008?

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

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

5. In Chapter 19, why did Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster favor sending additional soldiers back to Afghanistan?

6. What problems were there with the quality of the Afghan recruits?

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

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

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

10. What did the Pentagon brass tell Trump about withdrawing from Afghanistan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

There were major cultural differences between the U.S. and Afghanistan. What were those differences, and how did they create challenges in communication and trust-building?

Essay Topic 3

Whitlock wrote that the Bush administration blurred the line between al-Qaeda and the Taliban. How did the Bush administration blur the differences between al-Qaeda and the Taliban? How did the failure to differentiate between the groups make it difficult to understand who the bad guys were?

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