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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What word, translated as "way" or "path" refers to the code of conduct or religious law of Islam?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What orphan did Mortenson meet in Part 1: Chapter 5? What impact did he have on the author?

6. What other works has Greg Mortenson written? What charity did he help form?

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

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

9. How was Sandhar Khan's position on the opium trade described in Part 1: Chapter 5?

10. How was the meeting between Sadhar Khan and Mortenson described in Part 1: Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss reactions in Afghanistan to the Newsweek article printed in 2005. How were NGOs in danger?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Dr. Ashraf Ghani and Mortenson's discoveries while on his first official trip in Afghanistan. Why did Dr. Ghani believe building schools in the city was far more important?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the reasons CAI was unable to contribute aid to the people of Pakistan after the Kashmir earthquake. What were the major relief charities from the U.S.?

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