Babrak Karmal
Babrak Karmal
  • 1. When was Babrak Karmal born?
A) 1959
B) 1929
C) 1949
D) 1939
  • 2. Which country was Babrak Karmal the leader of?
A) Afghanistan
B) Iran
C) Pakistan
D) Iraq
  • 3. During Babrak Karmal's presidency, Afghanistan signed a friendship treaty with which country?
A) China
B) United States
C) Soviet Union
D) United Kingdom
  • 4. Babrak Karmal was succeeded by which President of Afghanistan?
A) Abdul Rashid Dostum
B) Hamid Karzai
C) Mohammad Najibullah
D) Ashraf Ghani
  • 5. What was the name of the Afghan intelligence agency under Babrak Karmal's government?
A) KHAD
B) CIA
C) MI6
D) MOSSAD
  • 6. In which city was Babrak Karmal born?
A) Mazar-i-Sharif
B) Herat
C) Kandahar
D) Kabul
  • 7. Who was the leader of Afghanistan just before Babrak Karmal came to power?
A) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
B) Nur Muhammad Taraki
C) Hafizullah Amin
D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
  • 8. Which neighboring country did Babrak Karmal's government accuse of supporting mujahideen in Afghanistan?
A) India
B) Pakistan
C) Iran
D) China
  • 9. What was Babrak Karmal's birth name?
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan
B) Sultan Hussein
C) Hafizullah Amin
D) Mir Akbar Khyber
  • 10. Who introduced Babrak Karmal to Marxism?
A) Mir Akbar Khyber
B) Nur Mohammad Taraki
C) Mohammad Daoud Khan
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 11. What faction of the PDPA did Babrak Karmal lead?
A) Democratic faction
B) Revolutionary faction
C) Khalq faction
D) Parcham faction
  • 12. In which year was the PDPA split into factions?
A) 1986
B) 1973
C) 1967
D) 1978
  • 13. Which city did Babrak Karmal live in under protection after his exile?
A) Prague
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Moscow
D) Kabul
  • 14. What position did Babrak Karmal hold after being brought back by the Soviet Union in 1979?
A) Chairman of the Revolutionary Council
B) Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council
C) General Secretary of PDPA
D) President of Afghanistan
  • 15. Who replaced Babrak Karmal as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1981?
A) Hafizullah Amin
B) Sultan Ali Keshtmand
C) Mohammad Najibullah
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 16. What was Babrak Karmal's relationship with Abdul Rashid Dostum after returning to Afghanistan in 1991?
A) Kārmal served as Dostum's advisor
B) Dostum exiled him from Afghanistan
C) They were political rivals
D) He became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum
  • 17. What was the cause of Babrak Karmal's death in 1996?
A) Heart attack
B) Car accident
C) Assassination
D) Liver cancer
  • 18. In which village was Babrak Karmal born?
A) Herat
B) Kamari
C) Kabul
D) Paktia
  • 19. What rank did Babrak Karmal's father hold in the Royal Afghan Army?
A) Private
B) Lieutenant general (three-star rank)
C) Colonel
D) Major general
  • 20. Which provinces was Babrak Karmal's father a former governor of?
A) Nangarhar and Balkh
B) Kabul and Jalalabad
C) Paktia and Herat
D) Kandahar and Kunduz
  • 21. What was the ethnic background that some sources claimed Babrak Karmal belonged to?
A) Pashtun
B) Uzbek
C) Tajik
D) Hazara
  • 22. Which organization did Babrak Karmal become involved with during his university years?
A) Tajik Nationalist Party
B) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement)
C) Pashtun Freedom Fighters
D) Afghan Democratic Union
  • 23. Why was Babrak Karmal initially denied admission to Kabul University?
A) Due to his student political activism and openly leftist views
B) For lack of necessary qualifications
C) Because of poor academic performance
D) Due to a family dispute
  • 24. In what year was Babrak Karmal arrested because of his student union activities?
A) 1956
B) 1953
C) 1948
D) 1960
  • 25. By how much did the Gross National Product (GNP) per capita decrease from 1978 to 1981?
A) 518 Afghan afghanis
B) 300 Afghan afghanis
C) 700 Afghan afghanis
D) 600 Afghan afghanis
  • 26. What was Babrak Karmal's role in the Ministry of Planning?
A) Consultant
B) Director
C) Advisor
D) Employee from 1961 to 1963
  • 27. How long did Major Saddiq Alamyar remain in jail?
A) For a decade
B) Until Karmal's death
C) For five years
D) Until the end of Soviet occupation
  • 28. Who congratulated Babrak Karmal on his rise to the Chairmanship of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council?
A) Alexei Kosygin
B) Alexander Puzanov
C) Leonid Brezhnev
D) Yuri Andropov
  • 29. What percentage of elected officials were non-PDPA members during the 1985–86 elections?
A) 20 percent
B) 60 percent
C) 80 percent
D) 40 percent
  • 30. Who took control over the ministries of finance, agriculture, communications, and border affairs?
A) National Revolutionary Party
B) Islamic Unity Party
C) Khalq faction
D) Parchamites
  • 31. Why did Karmal believe the country was not ready for a revolution?
A) Lack of military strength
B) Insufficient international support
C) Due to economic instability
D) Because people would not support armed actions without their backing
  • 32. Where was Babrak Karmal when his pre-recorded speech to the Afghan people was broadcast?
A) Bagram
B) Tashkent
C) Kabul
D) Moscow
  • 33. When was the NFF's founding congress held?
A) December 1982
B) January 1983
C) June 1981
D) March 1980
  • 34. What was one of the contradictions in the Fundamental Principles?
A) Prohibition of all forms of property
B) Complete freedom without any state intervention
C) The state could take families under its supervision
D) No mention of national security
  • 35. What was the Saur Revolution also known as?
A) The March Revolution
B) The April Revolution
C) The October Revolution
D) The August Revolution
  • 36. Who was imprisoned for twelve years during Karmal's rule?
A) Parchamite leaders
B) Khalq commanders loyal to Amin
C) Saleh Mohammad Zeary
D) Amin's daughter along with her baby
  • 37. Who became Deputy Prime Minister after Daoud's seizure of power?
A) Faiz Mohammad
B) Abdul Qadir
C) Hassan Sharq
D) Niamatullah Pazhwak
  • 38. What was continued as part of the national policy of reconciliation?
A) Land redistribution
B) Military expansion
C) The literacy programme
D) Industrialization efforts
  • 39. To what amount did the defense budget increase by 1981 after the Soviet intervention?
A) $208 million US$
B) $325 million US$
C) $6.4 million US$
D) $22 percent of total expenditure
  • 40. How many military zones were established to better organize the Afghan military?
A) Seven
B) Ten
C) Five
D) Three
  • 41. What was the size of the Afghan army before and after the Soviet intervention?
A) 200,000 troops before, 50,000 after
B) 25,000 troops before, 100,000 after
C) 50,000 troops before, 75,000 after
D) 100,000 troops before, 25,000 after
  • 42. What was Major Saddiq Alamyar known for during Karmal's time?
A) Leading a successful coup against Karmal
B) Committing the Kerala massacre
C) Implementing educational reforms
D) Negotiating peace with opposition groups
  • 43. What was one of the domestic challenges faced by Babrak Karmal?
A) Stable political environment
B) Successful economic reforms
C) Widespread public support
D) Escalating unrest in the country
  • 44. What event marked an early sign of trouble during Karmal's leadership?
A) Two major uprisings on 3 Hoot (22 February)
B) A declaration of independence from the Soviet Union
C) The signing of a peace treaty
D) An economic reform announcement
  • 45. What was the primary economic activity in Afghanistan during Karmal's rule?
A) Trade
B) Agriculture
C) Service sector
D) Industry
  • 46. When did the general amnesty of prisoners occur under Karmal's government?
A) 1 January 1980
B) The day after Karmal took power
C) 6 January
D) 22 April 1980
  • 47. Which sector was the smallest in terms of GDP contribution in 1981?
A) Trade
B) Agriculture
C) Industry
D) Service sector
  • 48. Which Soviet official refused to help Babrak Karmal during his time in hiding and revealed his location?
A) Yuri Andropov
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Alexei Kosygin
D) Alexander Puzanov
  • 49. What role did students play during Karmal's leadership?
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
  • 50. What position did Karmal hold in the reestablished PDPA?
A) General Secretary
B) Second Secretary
C) Minister of Education
D) Deputy Prime Minister
  • 51. What languages did Babrak Karmal work as a translator for?
A) Spanish and Italian
B) Arabic and Persian
C) French and Russian
D) English and German
  • 52. Who granted amnesty to Babrak Karmal in 1956?
A) Nur Muhammad Taraki
B) Muhammad Daoud Khan
C) Hafizullah Amin
D) Mohammed Najibullah
  • 53. What majority did the Parchamites hold during the party conference in March 1982?
A) A two-thirds majority
B) A simple majority
C) A three-fifths majority
D) A unanimous decision
  • 54. What percentage of government revenue was spent on defense by the Afghan government?
A) 40%
B) 8.3%
C) 2.2%
D) 22%
  • 55. Where did Babrak Karmal die?
A) In Kabul during a battle
B) In Hairatan
C) In a plane crash along with Dostum
D) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital
  • 56. Where was Babrak Karmal based after the fall of Najibullah's government?
A) Tashkent
B) Hairatan
C) Kabul
D) Moscow
  • 57. Who led the rebels that took Kabul on April 16, 1992?
A) Abdul Rashid Dostum
B) Najibullah
C) Babrak Karmal
D) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
  • 58. Who was appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council after the Saur Revolution?
A) Amin
B) Karmal
C) Watanjar
D) Taraki
  • 59. Which political party collaborated with Mohammed Daoud Khan in overthrowing the monarchy?
A) Parchamite PDPA
B) National Revolutionary Party
C) Soviet Communist Party
D) Islamic Unity Party
  • 60. What was the date of Babrak Karmal's pre-recorded speech broadcast via Radio Kabul?
A) 27 December 1979
B) 4 September 1979
C) 28 December 1979
D) 1 January 1980
  • 61. Who was given a leading position in the Soviet-style Central Committee established by Daoud's government?
A) Mohammad Taraki
B) Niamatullah Pazhwak
C) Hassan Sharq
D) Babrak Karmal
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