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