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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. What is the peak elevation of K2?
(a) 28,251 feet.
(b) 19,470 feet.
(c) 14,496 feet.
(d) 14,411 feet.

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

3. Where did Greg Mortenson first meet Sarfraz Khan?
(a) Sheberghan.
(b) Paghman.
(c) Zuudkhan.
(d) Herat.

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

5. What is the highest of civil awards and decorations given by the Government of Pakistan for the highest degree of service to the country and nation of Pakistan?
(a) Sitara-i-Imtiaz.
(b) Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam.
(c) Hilal-e-Shujaat.
(d) Nishan-e-Pakistan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the approximate population of Faizabad?

3. Under Taliban law, girls were allowed neither to work nor to be educated after the age of what?

4. 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?

5. K2 is located among what mountain range?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What information did Sarfraz Khan give to Mortenson when they met in Part 1: Chapter 2 about the region?

4. Where in Afghanistan did Mortenson travel in the beginning of Part 1: Chapter 6?

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

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

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

8. What obstacles for Mortenson are presented in Part 1: Chapters 3 and 4?

9. What led to Sarfraz Khan's disfigurement? What skills did he possess?

10. When and where did Mortenson meet Sarfraz Khan?

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