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

2. What United States President signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Gerald Ford.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

3. For how long did Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time remain on the New York Times Best Seller List?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 29 weeks.
(d) 1 year.

4. As CAI built a school in Baharak, who began moving into the Wakhan and negotiating contracts with villages there to begin building schools?
(a) Ashraf Ghani.
(b) Wakil Karimi.
(c) Sarfraz Khan.
(d) Shaukat Ali Chaudry.

5. Who formed the The Central Asia Institute as an American non-profit organization along with Greg Mortenson?
(a) Helmut Reinhardt.
(b) Jean Hoerni.
(c) Bill Gates.
(d) Hiroshi Fujikawa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Greg Mortenson's sister, in whose memory he sought to climb K2?

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. When was Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time first published?

4. Along what dangerous road through the Khyber Pass did Greg Mortenson first enter Afghanistan?

5. Greg Mortenson's unique team of local employees was referred to as______________,

Short Essay Questions

1. What had led to a flood of donations for CAI in Part 1: Chapter 5? What did the money afford them the ability to build?

2. How did Sarfraz Khan prove to be an asset to Mortenson in Part 1: Chapters 3 and 4?

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

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

5. Who are the Kirghiz people? Where do they live?

6. Why did Mortenson not refuse the nearly impossible task of building a school in the Wakhan Corridor?

7. How was Kabul described in Mortenson's Afghanistan visit in Part 1: Chapter 3?

8. What obstacles did CAI face in building within Afghanistan in Part 1: Chapter 5?

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

10. Why did Mortenson travel to Badakshan in Part 1: Chapter 4?

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