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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 15-17 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what village was the Government Boys' Degree High School located?
(a) Rudbar.
(b) Chiras.
(c) Karokh.
(d) Patika.

2. What profession does Greg Mortonson's wife hold?
(a) Physical trainer.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Clinical psychologist.

3. What insightful little girl informed Mortenson that the students were still traumatized by the earthquake and they wanted desks in the classroom in Part 2: Chapter 9?
(a) Anoosheh.
(b) Farzana.
(c) Farrukhzad.
(d) Shararah.

4. When did the fall of the communist Mohammad Najibullah-regime take place?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1992.

5. In the Epilogue, when word came that the building supplies were being delayed due to a lack of available yak, who ordered his people to send all available yaks to help?
(a) Mohammed Omar.
(b) Farrukh Seir.
(c) Sarfraz Khan.
(d) Abdul Rashid Khan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reconstruction authority was made by the military regime to accommodate the retired high military officials while keeping the command of the reconstruction and rehabilitation authority directly under the military in Pakistan?

2. In the spring of 2005, Mortenson returned to Afghanistan to visit the newly finished school located in _________.

3. In what city did Mortenson meet Wakil Karimi?

4. Where was Sarfraz Khan shot and permanently disfigured while in the military?

5. After his surgery, Mortenson ordered Sarfraz to take how long off work in Part 2: Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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