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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who paid the ram price to the mercenary to keep the Korphe school project from being shut down?
(a) Changazi.
(b) Greg.
(c) Haji.
(d) Twaha.

2. Greg tried to increase CAI school funding to increase enrollment of ____.
(a) Orphaned boys.
(b) Orphaned girls.
(c) Boys.
(d) Girls.

3. Back in Pakistan, Greg met ___ Parvi, who now worked with Changazi.
(a) Mohammed.
(b) Ghulam.
(c) Abdul.
(d) Haji.

4. Where did Greg have to take his meals to avoid many people talking to him while he ate?
(a) His bedroom.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) His tent.
(d) The school.

5. When Greg traveled to Waziristan, he saw heavily armed men doing what?
(a) Unloading stolen U.N. provisions.
(b) Loading slaves.
(c) Smoking hashish.
(d) Shooting trees for target practice.

6. At one point in Chapters 13 through 16, it is mentioned that Tara went to Pakistan, bringing ___ along.
(a) Allison.
(b) Kishwar.
(c) Hoerni.
(d) Amira.

7. What did the captors give Greg, at his request, on the third day of his captivity?
(a) Bandages for his wounds.
(b) A Koran.
(c) A Bible.
(d) Clean drinking water.

8. Who did Greg hire in Pakistan to handle local aspects of projects?
(a) Mouzafer.
(b) Shah.
(c) Parvi.
(d) Changazi.

9. What arrived in a red velvet box?
(a) A small ribbon.
(b) A knife.
(c) An invitation.
(d) A letter.

10. Back in the U.S., who suggested that Greg make school building his life work, his career?
(a) McCown.
(b) Hoerni.
(c) Villard.
(d) Reinhardt.

11. On the day the Korphe school was completed, who handed Greg a ledger that accounted for all monies spent on the project?
(a) Changazi.
(b) Twaha.
(c) Haji Ali.
(d) Ghulam Parvi.

12. Greg and Tara named their first child Amira ___ Mortenson.
(a) Ashley.
(b) Allison.
(c) Aliana.
(d) Aurora.

13. With whom did Greg agree to stay while in Waziristan?
(a) A local family.
(b) A village elder.
(c) The village leader.
(d) The leader of the armed men.

14. It is mentioned in Chapters 10 through 12 that Greg met a Wakhi ___.
(a) Child.
(b) Woman.
(c) Tribesman.
(d) Elder.

15. How much money did Hoerni leave for the continuation of the CAI?
(a) Half a million dollars.
(b) Two million dollars.
(c) One million dollars.
(d) One and a half million dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was the check written to Greg to have the bridge built in Korphe, as mentioned in Chapters 10 through 12?

2. The Korphe vocational center was where women could meet and ____.

3. When Greg returned to Pakistan, he found petitions to build more schools, but he was opposed at first by whom?

4. Before Greg was blind-folded and taken away, he was awakened in Waziristan by men pointing what at him?

5. A program was established to help the young men of Korphe assist with ____ in the area.

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