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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the largest branch of Islam?
(a) Shia Islam.
(b) Sunni Islam.
(c) Shukran Islam.
(d) Sokkar Islam.

2. What Islamic movement was founded by Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi, Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi, Shah Rafi al-Din, Sayyid Muhammad Abid, Zulfiqar Ali, Fadhl al-Rahman 'Usmani and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi?
(a) Farakh movement.
(b) Khandud movement.
(c) Deobandi movement.
(d) Munay movement.

3. What is the capital of Afghanistan?
(a) Khandud.
(b) Dorufchah.
(c) Kabul.
(d) Ashkasham.

4. What is a non-written ethical code and traditional lifestyle which the indigenous Pashtun people from Afghanistan and Pakistan follow?
(a) Pashtunwali.
(b) Qarqin.
(c) Qaravol.
(d) Sangin.

5. What word, translated as "way" or "path" refers to the code of conduct or religious law of Islam?
(a) Sharia.
(b) Parcham.
(c) Zoroaster.
(d) Khosrau.

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

7. What is the official name used by the U.S. government for the War in Afghanistan, together with a number of smaller military actions, under the umbrella of the global "War on Terror"?
(a) Operation Griffin.
(b) Operation Enduring Freedom.
(c) Operation Phoenix.
(d) Operation Golden Eagle.

8. K2 is located among what mountain range?
(a) Hindu Kush Range.
(b) Kirthar Range.
(c) Toba Kakar Range.
(d) Karakoram Range.

9. What is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious?
(a) Lahmu.
(b) Alhandullellah.
(c) Madrasah.
(d) Nargileh.

10. Under Taliban law, girls were allowed neither to work nor to be educated after the age of what?
(a) 21.
(b) 14.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

11. What refers to an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions to cover their bodies in public places?
(a) Robe.
(b) Moo-moo.
(c) Kimono.
(d) Burqa.

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

13. Sarfraz was pathological about avoiding letting anyone know what in Part 1: Chapter 5?
(a) Where they were traveling.
(b) Where his family lived.
(c) When his birthdays was.
(d) His true religion.

14. 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) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The L.A. Times.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Time.

15. When did the Soviet war in Afghanistan begin?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does NGO stand for?

2. 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?

3. What pass between northern Pakistan and the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan is extremely remote and often closed off for six months or more during the winter due to heavy snows?

4. Sarfraz was diligent about Mortenson's safety and would often hire and fire what on a whim?

5. When were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda taken against the United States?

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