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A) 1959 B) 1929 C) 1949 D) 1939
A) Afghanistan B) Iran C) Pakistan D) Iraq
A) China B) United States C) Soviet Union D) United Kingdom
A) Abdul Rashid Dostum B) Hamid Karzai C) Mohammad Najibullah D) Ashraf Ghani
A) KHAD B) CIA C) MI6 D) MOSSAD
A) Mazar-i-Sharif B) Herat C) Kandahar D) Kabul
A) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar B) Nur Muhammad Taraki C) Hafizullah Amin D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
A) India B) Pakistan C) Iran D) China
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan B) Sultan Hussein C) Hafizullah Amin D) Mir Akbar Khyber
A) Mir Akbar Khyber B) Nur Mohammad Taraki C) Mohammad Daoud Khan D) Mikhail Gorbachev
A) Democratic faction B) Revolutionary faction C) Khalq faction D) Parcham faction
A) 1986 B) 1973 C) 1967 D) 1978
A) Prague B) Czechoslovakia C) Moscow D) Kabul
A) Chairman of the Revolutionary Council B) Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council C) General Secretary of PDPA D) President of Afghanistan
A) Hafizullah Amin B) Sultan Ali Keshtmand C) Mohammad Najibullah D) Mikhail Gorbachev
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
A) Heart attack B) Car accident C) Assassination D) Liver cancer
A) Herat B) Kamari C) Kabul D) Paktia
A) Private B) Lieutenant general (three-star rank) C) Colonel D) Major general
A) Nangarhar and Balkh B) Kabul and Jalalabad C) Paktia and Herat D) Kandahar and Kunduz
A) Pashtun B) Uzbek C) Tajik D) Hazara
A) Tajik Nationalist Party B) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement) C) Pashtun Freedom Fighters D) Afghan Democratic Union
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
A) 1956 B) 1953 C) 1948 D) 1960
A) 518 Afghan afghanis B) 300 Afghan afghanis C) 700 Afghan afghanis D) 600 Afghan afghanis
A) Consultant B) Director C) Advisor D) Employee from 1961 to 1963
A) For a decade B) Until Karmal's death C) For five years D) Until the end of Soviet occupation
A) Alexei Kosygin B) Alexander Puzanov C) Leonid Brezhnev D) Yuri Andropov
A) 20 percent B) 60 percent C) 80 percent D) 40 percent
A) National Revolutionary Party B) Islamic Unity Party C) Khalq faction D) Parchamites
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
A) Bagram B) Tashkent C) Kabul D) Moscow
A) December 1982 B) January 1983 C) June 1981 D) March 1980
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
A) The March Revolution B) The April Revolution C) The October Revolution D) The August Revolution
A) Parchamite leaders B) Khalq commanders loyal to Amin C) Saleh Mohammad Zeary D) Amin's daughter along with her baby
A) Faiz Mohammad B) Abdul Qadir C) Hassan Sharq D) Niamatullah Pazhwak
A) Land redistribution B) Military expansion C) The literacy programme D) Industrialization efforts
A) $208 million US$ B) $325 million US$ C) $6.4 million US$ D) $22 percent of total expenditure
A) Seven B) Ten C) Five D) Three
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
A) Leading a successful coup against Karmal B) Committing the Kerala massacre C) Implementing educational reforms D) Negotiating peace with opposition groups
A) Stable political environment B) Successful economic reforms C) Widespread public support D) Escalating unrest in the country
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
A) Trade B) Agriculture C) Service sector D) Industry
A) 1 January 1980 B) The day after Karmal took power C) 6 January D) 22 April 1980
A) Trade B) Agriculture C) Industry D) Service sector
A) Yuri Andropov B) Leonid Brezhnev C) Alexei Kosygin D) Alexander Puzanov
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) General Secretary B) Second Secretary C) Minister of Education D) Deputy Prime Minister
A) Spanish and Italian B) Arabic and Persian C) French and Russian D) English and German
A) Nur Muhammad Taraki B) Muhammad Daoud Khan C) Hafizullah Amin D) Mohammed Najibullah
A) A two-thirds majority B) A simple majority C) A three-fifths majority D) A unanimous decision
A) 40% B) 8.3% C) 2.2% D) 22%
A) In Kabul during a battle B) In Hairatan C) In a plane crash along with Dostum D) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital
A) Tashkent B) Hairatan C) Kabul D) Moscow
A) Abdul Rashid Dostum B) Najibullah C) Babrak Karmal D) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
A) Amin B) Karmal C) Watanjar D) Taraki
A) Parchamite PDPA B) National Revolutionary Party C) Soviet Communist Party D) Islamic Unity Party
A) 27 December 1979 B) 4 September 1979 C) 28 December 1979 D) 1 January 1980
A) Mohammad Taraki B) Niamatullah Pazhwak C) Hassan Sharq D) Babrak Karmal |