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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Panjdeh Incident take place?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1912.

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

3. What is the approximate population of Faizabad?
(a) 120,000.
(b) 165,000.
(c) 215,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. Where did Mortenson spend his early childhood and adolescence?
(a) Italy.
(b) Tanzania.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Romania.

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

6. In Part 1: Chapter 5, due to having just received a flood of donations, where was CAI able to agree to build a school to appease Sadhar?
(a) Jalalabad.
(b) Taloqan.
(c) Samangan.
(d) Baharak.

7. What minister of finance told Mortenson of Afghanistan's overwhelming need for money and the lack of funds received as promised from the American government in Part 1: Chapter 3?
(a) Farooq Wardak.
(b) Mohammad Mustafa Mastoor.
(c) Dr. Ashraf Ghani.
(d) Dr. Suraya Dalil.

8. 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?
(a) The Silver Crescent.
(b) The Emerald Trinagle.
(c) The Ruby Crescent.
(d) The Golden Triangle.

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

10. When did Greg Mortenson attempt to climb K2, leading to events that would inspire CAI?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1991.

11. Faizabad is the provincial capital and largest city in what province?
(a) Badakhshan Province.
(b) Balkh Province.
(c) Baghlan Province.
(d) Bamyan Province.

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

13. When did Greg Mortenson first meet Sarfraz Khan?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2000.

14. Where was Sarfraz Khan shot and permanently disfigured while in the military?
(a) His spine.
(b) His hand.
(c) His leg.
(d) His face.

15. What is the name of the remote mountainous section of Afghanistan where the Kirghiz people live?
(a) The Wakhan Corridor.
(b) The Pashtun Corridor.
(c) The Durrani Corridor.
(d) The Firishta Corridor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Bantu language did Greg Mortenson learn fluently as a child?

2. When did the Soviet war in Afghanistan end?

3. What does NGO stand for?

4. When it was first established, 49% of Ariana Afghan Airlines was owned by what company?

5. In 2007, what percent of the opiates on the world market originated in Afghanistan?

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