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A) 1929 B) 1949 C) 1959 D) 1939
A) Pakistan B) Iraq C) Iran D) Afghanistan
A) Soviet Union B) China C) United States D) United Kingdom
A) Ashraf Ghani B) Abdul Rashid Dostum C) Hamid Karzai D) Mohammad Najibullah
A) MI6 B) CIA C) KHAD D) MOSSAD
A) Herat B) Kabul C) Mazar-i-Sharif D) Kandahar
A) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar B) Mohammad Daoud Khan C) Nur Muhammad Taraki D) Hafizullah Amin
A) Pakistan B) China C) India D) Iran
A) Sultan Hussein B) Hafizullah Amin C) Mohammad Daoud Khan D) Mir Akbar Khyber
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan B) Mir Akbar Khyber C) Nur Mohammad Taraki D) Mikhail Gorbachev
A) Parcham faction B) Revolutionary faction C) Democratic faction D) Khalq faction
A) 1978 B) 1967 C) 1986 D) 1973
A) Prague B) Kabul C) Czechoslovakia D) Moscow
A) Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council B) Chairman of the Revolutionary Council C) General Secretary of PDPA D) President of Afghanistan
A) Mikhail Gorbachev B) Hafizullah Amin C) Mohammad Najibullah D) Sultan Ali Keshtmand
A) He became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum B) Dostum exiled him from Afghanistan C) Kārmal served as Dostum's advisor D) They were political rivals
A) Liver cancer B) Assassination C) Heart attack D) Car accident
A) Paktia B) Kabul C) Herat D) Kamari
A) Colonel B) Private C) Major general D) Lieutenant general (three-star rank)
A) Paktia and Herat B) Nangarhar and Balkh C) Kabul and Jalalabad D) Kandahar and Kunduz
A) Uzbek B) Tajik C) Hazara D) Pashtun
A) Tajik Nationalist Party B) Afghan Democratic Union C) Pashtun Freedom Fighters D) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement)
A) For lack of necessary qualifications B) Because of poor academic performance C) Due to his student political activism and openly leftist views D) Due to a family dispute
A) 1948 B) 1960 C) 1953 D) 1956
A) Mohammed Najibullah B) Nur Muhammad Taraki C) Muhammad Daoud Khan D) Hafizullah Amin
A) French and Russian B) Arabic and Persian C) Spanish and Italian D) English and German
A) Director B) Consultant C) Advisor D) Employee from 1961 to 1963
A) Parchamite PDPA B) Soviet Communist Party C) National Revolutionary Party D) Islamic Unity Party
A) Niamatullah Pazhwak B) Babrak Karmal C) Hassan Sharq D) Mohammad Taraki
A) Faiz Mohammad B) Abdul Qadir C) Hassan Sharq D) Niamatullah Pazhwak
A) Parchamites B) National Revolutionary Party C) Khalq faction D) Islamic Unity Party
A) Minister of Education B) Deputy Prime Minister C) General Secretary D) Second Secretary
A) The April Revolution B) The August Revolution C) The March Revolution D) The October Revolution
A) Taraki B) Amin C) Karmal D) Watanjar
A) Alexander Puzanov B) Alexei Kosygin C) Leonid Brezhnev D) Yuri Andropov
A) 4 September 1979 B) 28 December 1979 C) 1 January 1980 D) 27 December 1979
A) Moscow B) Kabul C) Tashkent D) Bagram
A) Alexei Kosygin B) Alexander Puzanov C) Yuri Andropov D) Leonid Brezhnev
A) The signing of a peace treaty B) An economic reform announcement C) A declaration of independence from the Soviet Union D) Two major uprisings on 3 Hoot (22 February)
A) Negotiating peace with opposition groups B) Leading a successful coup against Karmal C) Committing the Kerala massacre D) Implementing educational reforms
A) For a decade B) Until Karmal's death C) Until the end of Soviet occupation D) For five years
A) Stable political environment B) Successful economic reforms C) Escalating unrest in the country D) Widespread public support
A) They formed a new political party B) They were neutral observers C) They supported Karmal's policies D) They participated in months-long protests
A) The day after Karmal took power B) 6 January C) 22 April 1980 D) 1 January 1980
A) No mention of national security B) Prohibition of all forms of property C) Complete freedom without any state intervention D) The state could take families under its supervision
A) Saleh Mohammad Zeary B) Amin's daughter along with her baby C) Khalq commanders loyal to Amin D) Parchamite leaders
A) A unanimous decision B) A two-thirds majority C) A three-fifths majority D) A simple majority
A) June 1981 B) December 1982 C) March 1980 D) January 1983
A) Industrialization efforts B) Military expansion C) The literacy programme D) Land redistribution
A) 80 percent B) 20 percent C) 60 percent D) 40 percent
A) $22 percent of total expenditure B) $6.4 million US$ C) $325 million US$ D) $208 million US$
A) 22% B) 40% C) 8.3% D) 2.2%
A) 25,000 troops before, 100,000 after B) 100,000 troops before, 25,000 after C) 50,000 troops before, 75,000 after D) 200,000 troops before, 50,000 after
A) Seven B) Three C) Five D) Ten
A) Agriculture B) Industry C) Trade D) Service sector
A) 600 Afghan afghanis B) 700 Afghan afghanis C) 300 Afghan afghanis D) 518 Afghan afghanis
A) Agriculture B) Trade C) Service sector D) Industry
A) Lack of military strength B) Due to economic instability C) Insufficient international support D) Because people would not support armed actions without their backing
A) Najibullah B) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar C) Abdul Rashid Dostum D) Babrak Karmal
A) Kabul B) Tashkent C) Hairatan D) Moscow
A) In Kabul during a battle B) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital C) In Hairatan D) In a plane crash along with Dostum |