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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 12-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What minister of finance told Mortenson of Afghanistan's overwhelming need for money and the lack of funds received as promised from the American government in Part 1: Chapter 3?
(a) Mohammad Mustafa Mastoor.
(b) Dr. Ashraf Ghani.
(c) Dr. Suraya Dalil.
(d) Farooq Wardak.

2. Who is the spiritual leader of the Taliban movement that operates in Afghanistan?
(a) Mohammed Omar.
(b) Mohammed Farkhar.
(c) Hokumati Azraw.
(d) Hokumati Darvishan.

3. What term is prevalently used as an euphemism for civilian casualties of a military action?
(a) Accidental mortality.
(b) Collateral damage.
(c) Deaths of innocents.
(d) Commoners passing.

4. Central Asia Institute was the first organization to rebuild earthquake resistant schools in Azad Kashmir when?
(a) September, 2002.
(b) November, 2006.
(c) May, 2003.
(d) April, 2000.

5. In Part 3: Chapter 14, Mortenson was hoping to get to what village of the Kirghiz people for the first time?
(a) Char Burj.
(b) Bozai Gumbaz.
(c) Tokzar.
(d) Tagao.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mortenson met Wakil Karimi in what year?

2. Along what dangerous road through the Khyber Pass did Greg Mortenson first enter Afghanistan?

3. When it was first established, 49% of Ariana Afghan Airlines was owned by what company?

4. On what date did Sarfraz enter Azad Kashmir in Part 2: Chapter 8?

5. Kashmir lies in the area of collision of the Eurasian and what tectonic plates?

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