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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. How many people in Afghanistan were reported killed by the Kashmir earthquake?
(a) 1,248.
(b) 4.
(c) 157.
(d) 541.

2. 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.

3. Along what dangerous road through the Khyber Pass did Greg Mortenson first enter Afghanistan?
(a) Ouled Nail Highway.
(b) Sabah al Khair Highway.
(c) Grand Trunk Highway.
(d) Samak Highway.

4. What was the magnitude of the Kashmir earthquake?
(a) 6.2.
(b) 7.6.
(c) 7.1.
(d) 8.5.

5. In addition to the Government Boys' Degree High School, what other school was completely demolished by the Kashmir earthquake in Patika?
(a) Shoe Ismack or Ismack Eh School for Girls.
(b) Zambra Mora Primary School for Girls.
(c) Gundi Piran Higher Secondary School for Girls.
(d) Danse Orientale Primary School for Girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Greg Mortenson born?

2. Into what areas does CAI specialize in going into first to establish schools?

3. What is the capital of Afghanistan?

4. Mortenson met Wakil Karimi in what year?

5. When Prince Charles of Britain and his wife visited the school at Patika, Chaudry did not mention whose help in the rebuilding of the schools?

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