Babrak Karmal
Babrak Karmal
  • 1. When was Babrak Karmal born?
A) 1929
B) 1949
C) 1959
D) 1939
  • 2. Which country was Babrak Karmal the leader of?
A) Pakistan
B) Iraq
C) Iran
D) Afghanistan
  • 3. During Babrak Karmal's presidency, Afghanistan signed a friendship treaty with which country?
A) Soviet Union
B) China
C) United States
D) United Kingdom
  • 4. Babrak Karmal was succeeded by which President of Afghanistan?
A) Ashraf Ghani
B) Abdul Rashid Dostum
C) Hamid Karzai
D) Mohammad Najibullah
  • 5. What was the name of the Afghan intelligence agency under Babrak Karmal's government?
A) MI6
B) CIA
C) KHAD
D) MOSSAD
  • 6. In which city was Babrak Karmal born?
A) Herat
B) Kabul
C) Mazar-i-Sharif
D) Kandahar
  • 7. Who was the leader of Afghanistan just before Babrak Karmal came to power?
A) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
B) Mohammad Daoud Khan
C) Nur Muhammad Taraki
D) Hafizullah Amin
  • 8. Which neighboring country did Babrak Karmal's government accuse of supporting mujahideen in Afghanistan?
A) Pakistan
B) China
C) India
D) Iran
  • 9. What was Babrak Karmal's birth name?
A) Sultan Hussein
B) Hafizullah Amin
C) Mohammad Daoud Khan
D) Mir Akbar Khyber
  • 10. Who introduced Babrak Karmal to Marxism?
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan
B) Mir Akbar Khyber
C) Nur Mohammad Taraki
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 11. What faction of the PDPA did Babrak Karmal lead?
A) Parcham faction
B) Revolutionary faction
C) Democratic faction
D) Khalq faction
  • 12. In which year was the PDPA split into factions?
A) 1978
B) 1967
C) 1986
D) 1973
  • 13. Which city did Babrak Karmal live in under protection after his exile?
A) Prague
B) Kabul
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Moscow
  • 14. What position did Babrak Karmal hold after being brought back by the Soviet Union in 1979?
A) Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council
B) 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) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Hafizullah Amin
C) Mohammad Najibullah
D) Sultan Ali Keshtmand
  • 16. What was Babrak Karmal's relationship with Abdul Rashid Dostum after returning to Afghanistan in 1991?
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
  • 17. What was the cause of Babrak Karmal's death in 1996?
A) Liver cancer
B) Assassination
C) Heart attack
D) Car accident
  • 18. In which village was Babrak Karmal born?
A) Paktia
B) Kabul
C) Herat
D) Kamari
  • 19. What rank did Babrak Karmal's father hold in the Royal Afghan Army?
A) Colonel
B) Private
C) Major general
D) Lieutenant general (three-star rank)
  • 20. Which provinces was Babrak Karmal's father a former governor of?
A) Paktia and Herat
B) Nangarhar and Balkh
C) Kabul and Jalalabad
D) Kandahar and Kunduz
  • 21. What was the ethnic background that some sources claimed Babrak Karmal belonged to?
A) Uzbek
B) Tajik
C) Hazara
D) Pashtun
  • 22. Which organization did Babrak Karmal become involved with during his university years?
A) Tajik Nationalist Party
B) Afghan Democratic Union
C) Pashtun Freedom Fighters
D) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement)
  • 23. Why was Babrak Karmal initially denied admission to Kabul University?
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
  • 24. In what year was Babrak Karmal arrested because of his student union activities?
A) 1948
B) 1960
C) 1953
D) 1956
  • 25. Who granted amnesty to Babrak Karmal in 1956?
A) Mohammed Najibullah
B) Nur Muhammad Taraki
C) Muhammad Daoud Khan
D) Hafizullah Amin
  • 26. What languages did Babrak Karmal work as a translator for?
A) French and Russian
B) Arabic and Persian
C) Spanish and Italian
D) English and German
  • 27. What was Babrak Karmal's role in the Ministry of Planning?
A) Director
B) Consultant
C) Advisor
D) Employee from 1961 to 1963
  • 28. Which political party collaborated with Mohammed Daoud Khan in overthrowing the monarchy?
A) Parchamite PDPA
B) Soviet Communist Party
C) National Revolutionary Party
D) Islamic Unity Party
  • 29. Who was given a leading position in the Soviet-style Central Committee established by Daoud's government?
A) Niamatullah Pazhwak
B) Babrak Karmal
C) Hassan Sharq
D) Mohammad Taraki
  • 30. Who became Deputy Prime Minister after Daoud's seizure of power?
A) Faiz Mohammad
B) Abdul Qadir
C) Hassan Sharq
D) Niamatullah Pazhwak
  • 31. Who took control over the ministries of finance, agriculture, communications, and border affairs?
A) Parchamites
B) National Revolutionary Party
C) Khalq faction
D) Islamic Unity Party
  • 32. What position did Karmal hold in the reestablished PDPA?
A) Minister of Education
B) Deputy Prime Minister
C) General Secretary
D) Second Secretary
  • 33. What was the Saur Revolution also known as?
A) The April Revolution
B) The August Revolution
C) The March Revolution
D) The October Revolution
  • 34. Who was appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council after the Saur Revolution?
A) Taraki
B) Amin
C) Karmal
D) Watanjar
  • 35. Which Soviet official refused to help Babrak Karmal during his time in hiding and revealed his location?
A) Alexander Puzanov
B) Alexei Kosygin
C) Leonid Brezhnev
D) Yuri Andropov
  • 36. What was the date of Babrak Karmal's pre-recorded speech broadcast via Radio Kabul?
A) 4 September 1979
B) 28 December 1979
C) 1 January 1980
D) 27 December 1979
  • 37. Where was Babrak Karmal when his pre-recorded speech to the Afghan people was broadcast?
A) Moscow
B) Kabul
C) Tashkent
D) Bagram
  • 38. Who congratulated Babrak Karmal on his rise to the Chairmanship of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council?
A) Alexei Kosygin
B) Alexander Puzanov
C) Yuri Andropov
D) Leonid Brezhnev
  • 39. What event marked an early sign of trouble during Karmal's leadership?
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)
  • 40. What was Major Saddiq Alamyar known for during Karmal's time?
A) Negotiating peace with opposition groups
B) Leading a successful coup against Karmal
C) Committing the Kerala massacre
D) Implementing educational reforms
  • 41. How long did Major Saddiq Alamyar remain in jail?
A) For a decade
B) Until Karmal's death
C) Until the end of Soviet occupation
D) For five years
  • 42. What was one of the domestic challenges faced by Babrak Karmal?
A) Stable political environment
B) Successful economic reforms
C) Escalating unrest in the country
D) Widespread public support
  • 43. 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
  • 44. When did the general amnesty of prisoners occur under Karmal's government?
A) The day after Karmal took power
B) 6 January
C) 22 April 1980
D) 1 January 1980
  • 45. What was one of the contradictions in the Fundamental Principles?
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
  • 46. Who was imprisoned for twelve years during Karmal's rule?
A) Saleh Mohammad Zeary
B) Amin's daughter along with her baby
C) Khalq commanders loyal to Amin
D) Parchamite leaders
  • 47. What majority did the Parchamites hold during the party conference in March 1982?
A) A unanimous decision
B) A two-thirds majority
C) A three-fifths majority
D) A simple majority
  • 48. When was the NFF's founding congress held?
A) June 1981
B) December 1982
C) March 1980
D) January 1983
  • 49. What was continued as part of the national policy of reconciliation?
A) Industrialization efforts
B) Military expansion
C) The literacy programme
D) Land redistribution
  • 50. What percentage of elected officials were non-PDPA members during the 1985–86 elections?
A) 80 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 40 percent
  • 51. To what amount did the defense budget increase by 1981 after the Soviet intervention?
A) $22 percent of total expenditure
B) $6.4 million US$
C) $325 million US$
D) $208 million US$
  • 52. What percentage of government revenue was spent on defense by the Afghan government?
A) 22%
B) 40%
C) 8.3%
D) 2.2%
  • 53. What was the size of the Afghan army before and after the Soviet intervention?
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
  • 54. How many military zones were established to better organize the Afghan military?
A) Seven
B) Three
C) Five
D) Ten
  • 55. What was the primary economic activity in Afghanistan during Karmal's rule?
A) Agriculture
B) Industry
C) Trade
D) Service sector
  • 56. By how much did the Gross National Product (GNP) per capita decrease from 1978 to 1981?
A) 600 Afghan afghanis
B) 700 Afghan afghanis
C) 300 Afghan afghanis
D) 518 Afghan afghanis
  • 57. Which sector was the smallest in terms of GDP contribution in 1981?
A) Agriculture
B) Trade
C) Service sector
D) Industry
  • 58. Why did Karmal believe the country was not ready for a revolution?
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
  • 59. Who led the rebels that took Kabul on April 16, 1992?
A) Najibullah
B) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
C) Abdul Rashid Dostum
D) Babrak Karmal
  • 60. Where was Babrak Karmal based after the fall of Najibullah's government?
A) Kabul
B) Tashkent
C) Hairatan
D) Moscow
  • 61. Where did Babrak Karmal die?
A) In Kabul during a battle
B) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital
C) In Hairatan
D) In a plane crash along with Dostum
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