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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 is the approximate population of Faizabad?
2. As CAI built a school in Baharak, who began moving into the Wakhan and negotiating contracts with villages there to begin building schools?
3. 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?
4. When was Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time first published?
5. K2 is located among what mountain range?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Mortenson hire Sarfraz Khan as in Part 1: Chapter 4?
2. What obstacles did CAI face in building within Afghanistan in Part 1: Chapter 5?
3. Where in Afghanistan did Mortenson travel in the beginning of Part 1: Chapter 6?
4. 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?
5. How did Sarfraz Khan prove to be an asset to Mortenson in Part 1: Chapters 3 and 4?
6. What does CAI specialize in? Why?
7. Why did Mortenson travel to Badakshan in Part 1: Chapter 4?
8. What other works has Greg Mortenson written? What charity did he help form?
9. What led to Sarfraz Khan's disfigurement? What skills did he possess?
10. How was Kabul described in Mortenson's Afghanistan visit in Part 1: Chapter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the Kashmir earthquake and its impact in Patika, Pakistan. Why were schools impacted as badly as they were in the disaster?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the characteristics of Sadhar Khan in the narrative and examine other accounts of this individual. What did Mortenson hope to gain by meeting Sadhar?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the current relationship between the United States and Afghanistan. How has the War on Terror evolved during your lifetime? How do you feel its impact is felt overseas?
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