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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Greg Mortenson's daughter?
(a) Yagana.
(b) Shararah.
(c) Amira.
(d) Paymaneh.

2. What percentage of the students in the tent schools in Patika passed their tests in the spring in Part 2: Chapter 10?
(a) 95.
(b) 60.
(c) 80.
(d) 100.

3. What is a Sanskrit title for a "great king" or "high king"?
(a) Tirtha.
(b) Bandha.
(c) Jagrat.
(d) Maharaja.

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

5. Central Asia Institute was the first organization to rebuild earthquake resistant schools in Azad Kashmir when?
(a) May, 2003.
(b) April, 2000.
(c) September, 2002.
(d) November, 2006.

6. In Part 2: Chapter 10, Mortenson got the approval for Sarfraz to build how many earthquake proof schools in Azad Kashmir?
(a) 16.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

7. How many provinces make up Afghanistan?
(a) 47.
(b) 19.
(c) 34.
(d) 8.

8. What term is prevalently used as an euphemism for civilian casualties of a military action?
(a) Deaths of innocents.
(b) Collateral damage.
(c) Commoners passing.
(d) Accidental mortality.

9. 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) Farzana.
(b) Farrukhzad.
(c) Anoosheh.
(d) Shararah.

10. Mortenson met Wakil Karimi when he began checking into _________.
(a) The Betty Ford Clinic.
(b) The Peace Gust House.
(c) Dentists Offices.
(d) Insane Assylums.

11. In what village did Mortenson notice that many of the children were not attending classes in Part 2: Chapter 9?
(a) Chaman.
(b) Taxila.
(c) Pakpattan.
(d) Nouseri.

12. In Part 2: Chapter 10, Sarfraz continued to monitor the tent schools in Azad Kashmir as well as what other locations?
(a) Afghanistan and the Wakhan.
(b) Afghanistan and the Behnam.
(c) Pakistan and the Simin.
(d) Tajikistan and the Behnam.

13. 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?
(a) CAI's.
(b) NRA's.
(c) FBI's.
(d) KGB's.

14. 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?
(a) ERRA.
(b) PURA.
(c) CHIRP.
(d) SABAL.

15. In Part 3: Chapter 13, Kunar almost turned around on his first trip into Kunar Province, but changed his mind after ____________.
(a) Having a dream.
(b) Reading a newspaper.
(c) Talking to his wife.
(d) Watching television.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the capital of Pakistan?

2. What is the state capital of Kashmir?

3. In Part 2: Chapter 9, Sarfraz encouraged Mortenson to delay thinking about closing what?

4. Where did Mortenson return in January in Part 2: Chapter 9?

5. What is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and People's Republic of China to the east?

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