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A) 1929 B) 1959 C) 1949 D) 1939
A) Pakistan B) Iraq C) Afghanistan D) Iran
A) United States B) China C) United Kingdom D) Soviet Union
A) Mohammad Najibullah B) Ashraf Ghani C) Hamid Karzai D) Abdul Rashid Dostum
A) MOSSAD B) CIA C) MI6 D) KHAD
A) Mazar-i-Sharif B) Herat C) Kandahar D) Kabul
A) Nur Muhammad Taraki B) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar C) Mohammad Daoud Khan D) Hafizullah Amin
A) China B) India C) Iran D) Pakistan
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan B) Hafizullah Amin C) Sultan Hussein D) Mir Akbar Khyber
A) Nur Mohammad Taraki B) Mikhail Gorbachev C) Mir Akbar Khyber D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
A) Parcham faction B) Democratic faction C) Revolutionary faction D) Khalq faction
A) 1978 B) 1967 C) 1986 D) 1973
A) Moscow B) Czechoslovakia C) Kabul D) Prague
A) General Secretary of PDPA B) President of Afghanistan C) Chairman of the Revolutionary Council D) Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council
A) Mikhail Gorbachev B) Mohammad Najibullah C) Hafizullah Amin D) Sultan Ali Keshtmand
A) Dostum exiled him from Afghanistan B) They were political rivals C) He became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum D) Kārmal served as Dostum's advisor
A) Car accident B) Liver cancer C) Heart attack D) Assassination
A) Kamari B) Kabul C) Herat D) Paktia
A) Colonel B) Lieutenant general (three-star rank) C) Major general D) Private
A) Paktia and Herat B) Nangarhar and Balkh C) Kandahar and Kunduz D) Kabul and Jalalabad
A) Tajik B) Hazara C) Pashtun D) Uzbek
A) Afghan Democratic Union B) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement) C) Tajik Nationalist Party D) Pashtun Freedom Fighters
A) Because of poor academic performance B) For lack of necessary qualifications C) Due to a family dispute D) Due to his student political activism and openly leftist views
A) 1948 B) 1956 C) 1960 D) 1953
A) 600 Afghan afghanis B) 300 Afghan afghanis C) 700 Afghan afghanis D) 518 Afghan afghanis
A) Director B) Consultant C) Advisor D) Employee from 1961 to 1963
A) For a decade B) For five years C) Until Karmal's death D) Until the end of Soviet occupation
A) Yuri Andropov B) Alexander Puzanov C) Alexei Kosygin D) Leonid Brezhnev
A) 40 percent B) 80 percent C) 60 percent D) 20 percent
A) National Revolutionary Party B) Islamic Unity Party C) Parchamites D) Khalq faction
A) Because people would not support armed actions without their backing B) Lack of military strength C) Insufficient international support D) Due to economic instability
A) Kabul B) Bagram C) Moscow D) Tashkent
A) January 1983 B) March 1980 C) June 1981 D) December 1982
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 August Revolution B) The October Revolution C) The March Revolution D) The April Revolution
A) Saleh Mohammad Zeary B) Amin's daughter along with her baby C) Parchamite leaders D) Khalq commanders loyal to Amin
A) Hassan Sharq B) Faiz Mohammad C) Niamatullah Pazhwak D) Abdul Qadir
A) Land redistribution B) Industrialization efforts C) The literacy programme D) Military expansion
A) $208 million US$ B) $22 percent of total expenditure C) $6.4 million US$ D) $325 million US$
A) Three B) Ten C) Five D) Seven
A) 25,000 troops before, 100,000 after B) 100,000 troops before, 25,000 after C) 200,000 troops before, 50,000 after D) 50,000 troops before, 75,000 after
A) Negotiating peace with opposition groups B) Implementing educational reforms C) Committing the Kerala massacre D) Leading a successful coup against Karmal
A) Widespread public support B) Stable political environment C) Successful economic reforms D) Escalating unrest in the country
A) A declaration of independence from the Soviet Union B) An economic reform announcement C) Two major uprisings on 3 Hoot (22 February) D) The signing of a peace treaty
A) Agriculture B) Industry C) Trade D) Service sector
A) The day after Karmal took power B) 22 April 1980 C) 6 January D) 1 January 1980
A) Industry B) Agriculture C) Service sector D) Trade
A) Alexei Kosygin B) Alexander Puzanov C) Leonid Brezhnev D) Yuri Andropov
A) They were neutral observers B) They participated in months-long protests C) They formed a new political party D) They supported Karmal's policies
A) Deputy Prime Minister B) General Secretary C) Minister of Education D) Second Secretary
A) French and Russian B) Arabic and Persian C) Spanish and Italian D) English and German
A) Mohammed Najibullah B) Hafizullah Amin C) Muhammad Daoud Khan D) Nur Muhammad Taraki
A) A simple majority B) A three-fifths majority C) A two-thirds majority D) A unanimous decision
A) 2.2% B) 8.3% C) 22% D) 40%
A) In a plane crash along with Dostum B) In Hairatan C) In Kabul during a battle D) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital
A) Kabul B) Hairatan C) Moscow D) Tashkent
A) Babrak Karmal B) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar C) Najibullah D) Abdul Rashid Dostum
A) Karmal B) Watanjar C) Taraki D) Amin
A) Islamic Unity Party B) Soviet Communist Party C) National Revolutionary Party D) Parchamite PDPA
A) 27 December 1979 B) 1 January 1980 C) 4 September 1979 D) 28 December 1979
A) Babrak Karmal B) Mohammad Taraki C) Hassan Sharq D) Niamatullah Pazhwak |