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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1: Chapter 6, Mortenson traveled with his bookkeeper in the Wakhan to Baharak shortly after following the publication of an article from what publication, claiming an American soldier flushed the Koran down a toilet?
(a) Time.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) The L.A. Times.
(d) The Wall Street Journal.

2. Greg Mortenson's unique team of local employees was referred to as______________,
(a) The Great Eight.
(b) The Fab Five.
(c) The Dirty Dozen.
(d) The Live Five.

3. Where did Greg Mortenson serve in the U.S. Army after high school?
(a) Japan.
(b) Germany.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Ecuador.

4. Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since the United States occupation started in what year?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2004.

5. What Bantu language did Greg Mortenson learn fluently as a child?
(a) Swahili.
(b) Farsi.
(c) Latin.
(d) Arabic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people in Afghanistan were reported killed by the Kashmir earthquake?

2. Who is the spiritual leader of the Taliban movement that operates in Afghanistan?

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

4. What area of around 367,000 square miles that overlaps the mountains of four countries of Southeast Asia (Burma, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand) is one of Asia's two main illicit opium-producing areas?

5. When did the Taliban rise to power by defeating their mujahadeen rivals and seizing control of Kandahar, spreading east?

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