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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. In Chapter 19, when did the Taliban agree to a partial, three-day ceasefire?
2. By the summer of 2012, how many troops were in Afghanistan?
3. In 2014, what was the sum of improper loans from Kabul Bank that had still not been repaid?
4. When did Sen. Susan Collins ask Michele Flournoy at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing how the Obama administration would know if the troop surge was successful?
5. How many soldiers were injured in the killings in Zabul in 2012?
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 corruption erupted after Karzai was reelected, and in what way was the U.S. partially responsible?
3. Why was Gen. David McKiernan fired in 2009?
4. What secret mission was Leon Panetta praying would work on May 1, 2011, and what was the outcome of the mission?
5. What did Obama have to say about Afghanistan on December 1, 2009?
6. What attack occurred on December 21, 2015?
7. What did the Pentagon brass tell Trump about withdrawing from Afghanistan?
8. What went wrong with an airstrike on July 6, 2008?
9. Why was it difficult to hold opium drug lords accountable?
10. After bin Laden was killed, what did Panetta tell reporters about how his death affected the war on terror?
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
Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does Whitlock use idioms in The Afghanistan Papers? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do idioms often require research to understand their meaning?
Essay Topic 3
The U.S. supported Karzai and then abandoned him. How and why did the U.S. support Karzai and then abandon him?
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