 - 1. What percentage of the participants in the mental health study were female?
A) 69.7%
B) 73.7%
C) 50%
D) 70%
- 2. What percentage of participants in the mental health study showed signs of depression?
A) 80%
B) 69.7%
C) 70%
D) 73.7%
- 3. What percentage of participants in the mental health study suffered from PTSD?
A) 69.7%
B) 60%
C) 70%
D) 73.7%
- 4. How many Afghan students participated in the mental health study?
A) 214
B) 100
C) 250
D) 500
- 5. According to the study, who is more affected by mental health issues?
A) Men
B) Children
C) Women
D) The elderly
- 6. What major event occurred on 15 August 2022?
A) The first anniversary of the fall of Kabul
B) The end of Taliban rule
C) The start of the mental health study
D) A new health care reform
- 7. What name did the Taliban give to the holiday on 15 August?
A) Victory Day
B) Freedom Day
C) Kabul Day
D) Independence Day
- 8. What is the requirement for a woman to travel more than 72 kilometers?
A) A government permit
B) Presence of a mahram
C) A formal health certificate
D) A travel visa
- 9. Which term describes a male guardian in the context of Taliban restrictions?
A) Mahram
B) Escort
C) Governor
D) Patron
- 10. Why is it difficult to conduct studies in crisis areas like Afghanistan?
A) Language barriers
B) Hard to get a large number of participants
C) Lack of funding
D) Lack of internet access
- 11. What is one reason that access to healthcare is limited for women?
A) Hospitals are too expensive
B) Lack of medication
C) Lack of hospitals
D) Women cannot be examined by males
- 12. What has happened to gender-based violence (GBV) since the fall of Kabul?
A) It has been eliminated
B) It has decreased
C) It has remained the same
D) It has increased
- 13. According to the text, what has the Taliban been accused of doing to women?
A) Removing them from public life
B) Increasing their political representation
C) Providing them with new education
D) Giving them travel grants
- 14. What consequence does the deteriorating humanitarian situation have on violence?
A) No effect on GBV
B) Increases the risk of GBV
C) Decreases the risk of GBV
D) Eliminates all services
- 15. How many Afghan civilians who worked for the US were estimated to be at risk of Taliban retaliation after the fall of Kabul?
A) Exactly 500,000
B) Less than 100,000
C) Over 1,000,000
D) More than 300,000
- 16. When did the international airlift mission conclude?
A) 19 August
B) 16 June
C) 30 August
D) 26 August
- 17. How many people were escorted out of Afghanistan via the airlift by the conclusion of the mission?
A) Exactly 100,000
B) Fewer than 50,000
C) More than 123,000
D) More than 300,000
- 18. What group claimed responsibility or was identified as responsible for the suicide attack at the airport on 26 August?
A) The Northern Alliance
B) Al-Qaeda
C) ISIS
D) Taliban
- 19. How many US soldiers were killed in the suicide attack at the airport?
A) 13
B) 170
C) 10
D) 7
- 20. How many civilians were killed in the 26 August suicide attack at the airport?
A) 10
B) 170
C) 300
D) 13
- 21. How many civilians were killed by the US drone strike that targeted a white car?
A) 7
B) 10
C) 13
D) 170
- 22. Which company employed the UK embassy guards who were denied asylum?
A) Blackwater
B) GardaWorld
C) Triple Canopy
D) DynCorp
- 23. When were the 125 UK embassy guards told by telephone that they no longer had jobs?
A) 26 August
B) 19 August
C) 30 August
D) 16 June
- 24. Which country's foreign minister stated that embassy guards were 'sub-contractors' and could not be on evacuation lists?
A) Australia
B) Finland
C) Italy
D) United Kingdom
- 25. What is one of the transit hubs mentioned where refugees were transferred?
A) Qatar
B) France
C) Canada
D) Spain
- 26. As of August 2023, approximately how many Afghans who assisted the United States remained in Afghanistan?
A) 300,000
B) 150,000
C) 123,000
D) 50,000
- 27. When did the major insurgent offensive by the Taliban begin?
A) August 2021
B) January 2021
C) May 2021
D) February 2020
- 28. Who was the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan when it was overthrown?
A) Ashraf Ghani
B) Hamid Karzai
C) Joe Biden
D) Antony Blinken
- 29. When was the United States–Taliban deal signed?
A) 15 August 2021
B) 29 February 2020
C) 16 August 2021
D) 30 August 2021
- 30. What was considered a critical factor that caused the collapse of the Afghan National Security Forces?
A) The United States–Taliban deal
B) The death of Ashraf Ghani
C) A lack of soldiers
D) International sanctions
- 31. What did US Intelligence estimate regarding Kabul's capture before the fall?
A) Ten years after withdrawal
B) One month before withdrawal
C) Six months after withdrawal
D) Immediate capture
- 32. What was the name of the airport used for the mass evacuations in August 2021?
A) Bagram Airfield
B) Kandahar International Airport
C) Hamid Karzai International Airport
D) Kabul Domestic Airport
- 33. What was the duration of the evacuation mission?
A) 7 days
B) 30 days
C) 15 days
D) 18 days
- 34. Who stated two weeks after the withdrawal that several thousand US residents remained in Kabul?
A) Ashraf Ghani
B) Hamid Karzai
C) Joe Biden
D) Antony Blinken
- 35. In which city was the US–Taliban peace agreement signed?
A) Washington
B) Doha
C) Islamabad
D) Kabul
- 36. Which entity was notably absent from the US–Taliban deal?
A) The United States
B) The Taliban
C) The Afghan government
D) NATO
- 37. What effect did the deal have on the morale of the Afghan National Army?
A) Increased morale
B) Exacerbated the decline in morale
C) Restored stability
D) Had no effect
- 38. Who was the Afghanistan Policy Lab director who spoke to Radio Free Europe before the fall?
A) Muhammad Nasir Haqqani
B) Timor Sharan
C) Ali Jalali
D) Mawlawi Zia ul-Haq
- 39. Which prison did the Taliban capture and release inmates from?
A) Kabul Central Prison
B) Parwan Detention Facility
C) Bagram Airfield
D) Pul-e-Charkhi
- 40. How many Afghan Air Force planes fled to Uzbekistan during the fall?
A) 22
B) 150
C) 24
D) 100
- 41. How many Afghan military personnel fled to Uzbekistan in the final stages?
A) 100
B) 150
C) 585
D) 5,000
- 42. What type of aircraft crashed after crossing the border into Uzbekistan?
A) A-29 Super Tucano
B) C-130 Hercules
C) Mi-17 helicopter
D) Black Hawk helicopter
- 43. Who did the Taliban reportedly kill including the former chief Abu Omar Khorasani?
A) Al-Qaeda militants
B) IS-K militants
C) Taliban defectors
D) Afghan National Army soldiers
- 44. Which city is the destination where two Afghan military planes landed with over 100 soldiers?
A) Bokhtar
B) Gardez
C) Kabul
D) Tashkent
- 45. What was the name of the presidential palace where Taliban negotiators arrived?
A) The Citadel
B) The White House
C) The Green Zone
D) The Arg
- 46. Who was the person falsely reported by Al Arabiya to lead a transitional government?
A) Timor Sharan
B) Ashraf Ghani
C) Muhammad Nasir Haqqani
D) Ali Jalali
- 47. Who spoke to Khalil Haqqani on behalf of the Afghan government on the day of the fall of Kabul?
A) Ashraf Ghani
B) Ahmad Zia Saraj
C) Hamdullah Mohib
D) Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
- 48. Who advised Hamdullah Mohib that the Taliban's request for a meeting might be a trap?
A) Abdul Ghani Baradar
B) Khalilzad
C) Joe Biden
D) Tom West
- 49. Where did Ghani publicly announce his flight from the country?
A) A televised press conference
B) A radio broadcast
C) Facebook
D) Twitter
- 50. What location did Ghani claim he originally intended to fly to before realizing it had fallen?
A) Kandahar
B) Khost
C) Herat
D) Jalalabad
- 51. At what time did the Taliban claim to have taken the Arg?
A) 9:12 p.m.
B) 8:55 p.m.
C) 8:00 p.m.
D) 11:00 p.m.
- 52. Which news organization was allowed into the Arg to interview Taliban militiamen?
A) CNN
B) Al Jazeera
C) BBC
D) Reuters
- 53. To which country did Speaker of the House Mir Rahman Rahmani flee?
A) United States
B) Pakistan
C) Tajikistan
D) Iran
- 54. Who was the Defense Minister that fled Afghanistan?
A) Ahmad Zia Saraj
B) Sarwar Danish
C) Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
D) Hamdullah Mohib
- 55. Which official was the Second Vice-president that fled the country?
A) Ahmad Zia Saraj
B) Sarwar Danish
C) Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
D) Mir Rahman Rahmani
- 56. What action were university-educated women in Kabul taking to protect themselves?
A) Hiding their diplomas.
B) Burning their university buildings.
C) Leaving their degrees at the university dormitories.
D) Publicly displaying their degrees.
- 57. How did the Taliban characterize the accusations of discrimination against women?
A) As propaganda.
B) As exaggerated reports.
C) As western-backed news.
D) As legitimate concerns.
- 58. What group claimed responsibility for the 26 August suicide bombing at Kabul Airport?
A) The Taliban
B) ISIL-KP
C) The Haqqani Network
D) Al-Qaeda
- 59. Which country stated it did not intend to shut down its embassy in Afghanistan?
A) United States
B) Russia
C) Germany
D) Canada
- 60. Who blamed the United States for the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Hamid Karzai
C) Boris Johnson
D) Joe Biden
- 61. Which official faced calls to resign after going on holiday to Greece during the fall of Kabul?
A) Dominic Raab
B) Joe Biden
C) George W. Bush
D) Boris Johnson
- 62. What percentage of Americans supported President Biden's handling of the situation in Afghanistan according to reports?
A) 26%
B) 50%
C) 41%
D) 10%
- 63. Which individual expressed that they were in 'complete shock' regarding the Taliban takeover?
A) Dominic Raab
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Khaled Hosseini
D) Nick Fuentes
- 64. How many Americans did the US government estimate remained in Afghanistan on 30 August 2021 who wanted to leave?
A) Under 200
B) Over 1,000
C) None
D) Exactly 500
- 65. What was the nature of the majority of the Americans evacuated from Afghanistan?
A) Military contractors
B) Diplomatic personnel only
C) Journalists
D) Dual US-Afghan citizens
- 66. Who described the fall of Kabul as 'the biggest debacle that NATO has suffered since its creation'?
A) Armin Laschet
B) Boris Johnson
C) Tom Tugendhat
D) Donald Trump
- 67. To what event did Tom Tugendhat compare the policy disaster of the Kabul collapse?
A) Suez
B) The Cold War
C) The Iraq War
D) The Vietnam War
- 68. What does Nick Turse argue the US risks if it fails to conduct a 'true reevaluation'?
A) The end of NATO
B) Economic collapse
C) Falling into well-worn patterns
D) Global isolation
- 69. According to Donald Trump, what should have been taken out in the last place during the withdrawal?
A) The military
B) Advanced equipment
C) American civilians
D) Afghan collaborators
- 70. Who denounced Ghani for leaving Afghanistan in a difficult situation?
A) Jens Stoltenberg
B) Abdullah Abdullah
C) Zalmay Khalilzad
D) Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
- 71. Who stated that the Afghan political leadership failed to stand up to the Taliban?
A) Jens Stoltenberg
B) David E. Sanger
C) Abdullah Abdullah
D) Joe Biden
- 72. Approximately how much money did the US invest to train and equip Afghan security forces since 2001?
A) Over $85 billion
B) Over $50 billion
C) Over $20 billion
D) Over $100 billion
- 73. When did Ghani and his cabinet visit the White House to request US support?
A) 25 July
B) 25 June
C) 15 June
D) 15 August
- 74. Who was the special envoy appointed by the Trump administration to negotiate with the Taliban?
A) Zalmay Khalilzad
B) Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
C) David E. Sanger
D) Jens Stoltenberg
- 75. According to David E. Sanger, how many basic miscalculations contributed to the fall of Kabul?
A) Five
B) Four
C) Six
D) Three
- 76. Who compared the fall of Kabul to the 1956 Suez Crisis?
A) Larry Chambers
B) William Maley
C) Joe Biden
D) Leon Panetta
- 77. Which former British prime minister did William Maley quote regarding the fall of Kabul?
A) Neville Chamberlain
B) Tony Blair
C) Winston Churchill
D) David Lloyd George
- 78. What action did embassy staff in Kabul take that mirrored events in Saigon?
A) Surrendering to local leaders
B) Joining the local resistance
C) Hiding in tunnels
D) Burning documents
- 79. According to Ross Douthat, how long did the Soviet-backed Afghan government survive after Soviet forces withdrew?
A) 3 years
B) 6 months
C) 1 year
D) Few months
- 80. Ibrahim al-Marashi compared the fall of Kabul to which event?
A) The 2014 Northern Iraq offensive
B) The annexation of Crimea
C) The US invasion of Iraq
D) The Soviet invasion of 1979
- 81. Who was the Taliban spokesman at the first official news conference on 17 August?
A) Abdul Ghani Baradar
B) Hibatullah Akhundzada
C) Sirajuddin Haqqani
D) Zabihullah Mujahid
- 82. Which social media company did not ban the Taliban after the fall?
A) YouTube
B) Instagram
C) Twitter
D) Facebook
- 83. Which former government official's portrait replaced Ghani's at the Afghan embassy in Tajikistan?
A) Hamdullah Mohib
B) Amrullah Saleh
C) Fazel Mahmood
D) Ahmad Massoud
- 84. What did Ahmad Massoud express a desire to do regarding the Taliban?
A) Escalate the conflict
B) Negotiate
C) Exile himself
D) Surrender unconditionally
- 85. Who served as the chief advisor to Ghani?
A) Fazel Mahmood
B) Hamdullah Mohib
C) Amrullah Saleh
D) Ahmad Massoud
- 86. What is the current status of the NRF resistance according to the text?
A) Still existing on a lesser scale
B) Governing the Panjshir province
C) Completely wiped out
D) Larger than its initial size
- 87. How many people were killed in Asadabad during the protests?
A) At least two
B) Twelve
C) Zero
D) Three
- 88. What reason did the Taliban give for barring women from universities?
A) Religious laws
B) Capacity
C) Protest involvement
D) Lack of funding
- 89. What demographic was appointed to government positions at the start of September 2021?
A) Only men
B) Only women
C) International diplomats
D) Both men and women equally
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