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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When it was first established, 49% of Ariana Afghan Airlines was owned by what company?
(a) Pan American World Airways.
(b) Halliburton.
(c) Boeing.
(d) Ford Motor Company.

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

3. Ariana Afghan Airlines was established when?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1966.

4. What is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production, located at the crossroads of Central, South, and Western Asia?
(a) The Silver Wedge.
(b) The Red Square.
(c) The Brown Octogon.
(d) The Golden Crescent.

5. The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was formed after the Saur Revolution which took place in what year?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the headquarters of the Central Asia Institute?

2. What is the world's highest mountain?

3. Under what Soviet leader did the Soviet war in Afghanistan come to an end?

4. From what country is it the most hazardous to reach K2?

5. Where did Greg Mortenson first meet Sarfraz Khan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Baharak described in Mortenson's trip in Part 1: Chapter 4?

2. What does CAI specialize in? Why?

3. What was the impact of the Newsweek article in Part 1: Chapter 6? Where was Mortenson taken?

4. What did Mortenson hire Sarfraz Khan as in Part 1: Chapter 4?

5. What important elements are introduced in Part 1: Chapters 1 and 2 regarding the setting of the narrative?

6. What events inspired the formation of CAI?

7. What did Mortenson learn from the children he passed traveling to Faizabad in Part 1: Chapter 6?

8. How were Mortenson and Sarfraz Khan's travels described in Part 1: Chapter 5?

9. When did Mortenson first enter Afghanistan in Part 1: Chapter 3? What scenes did he find?

10. How and when did the Taliban rise to power in Afghanistan? What laws did they enact?

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