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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time was written by Greg Mortenson and what author?
(a) David Oliver Relin.
(b) Karl Marlantes.
(c) Jonathan Franzen.
(d) Stieg Larsson.

2. Under what Soviet leader did the Soviet war in Afghanistan come to an end?
(a) Mikhail Gorbachev.
(b) Vladimir Lenin.
(c) Georgy Malenkov.
(d) Nikolai Podgorny.

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

4. Where did Greg Mortenson earn a bachelor's degree in liberal studies and an associate's degree in nursing?
(a) The University of Montana.
(b) The University of Kansas.
(c) The University of Minnesota.
(d) The University of South Dakota.

5. From what country is it the most hazardous to reach K2?
(a) United States.
(b) China.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Soviet war in Afghanistan end?

2. What village council or meeting must take place whenever a major decision is to be made within or for the people of a village in Afghanistan?

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

4. Under Taliban law, girls were allowed neither to work nor to be educated after the age of what?

5. What is the name of the remote mountainous section of Afghanistan where the Kirghiz people live?

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