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A) 1929 B) 1939 C) 1949 D) 1959
A) Pakistan B) Iran C) Afghanistan D) Iraq
A) Soviet Union B) United States C) China D) United Kingdom
A) Abdul Rashid Dostum B) Mohammad Najibullah C) Ashraf Ghani D) Hamid Karzai
A) CIA B) MI6 C) MOSSAD D) KHAD
A) Mazar-i-Sharif B) Kabul C) Herat D) Kandahar
A) Hafizullah Amin B) Nur Muhammad Taraki C) Mohammad Daoud Khan D) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
A) China B) Iran C) Pakistan D) India
A) Hafizullah Amin B) Mir Akbar Khyber C) Mohammad Daoud Khan D) Sultan Hussein
A) Mir Akbar Khyber B) Mikhail Gorbachev C) Nur Mohammad Taraki D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
A) Khalq faction B) Parcham faction C) Democratic faction D) Revolutionary faction
A) 1973 B) 1967 C) 1986 D) 1978
A) Moscow B) Kabul C) Czechoslovakia D) Prague
A) Chairman of the Revolutionary Council B) President of Afghanistan C) Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council D) General Secretary of PDPA
A) Mohammad Najibullah B) Hafizullah Amin C) Sultan Ali Keshtmand D) Mikhail Gorbachev
A) They were political rivals B) Kārmal served as Dostum's advisor C) Dostum exiled him from Afghanistan D) He became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum
A) Liver cancer B) Car accident C) Assassination D) Heart attack
A) Herat B) Kabul C) Paktia D) Kamari
A) Lieutenant general (three-star rank) B) Private C) Colonel D) Major general
A) Paktia and Herat B) Kabul and Jalalabad C) Nangarhar and Balkh D) Kandahar and Kunduz
A) Pashtun B) Tajik C) Hazara D) Uzbek
A) Pashtun Freedom Fighters B) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement) C) Tajik Nationalist Party D) Afghan Democratic Union
A) Due to his student political activism and openly leftist views B) Because of poor academic performance C) For lack of necessary qualifications D) Due to a family dispute
A) 1948 B) 1953 C) 1956 D) 1960
A) 300 Afghan afghanis B) 600 Afghan afghanis C) 700 Afghan afghanis D) 518 Afghan afghanis
A) Consultant B) Director C) Advisor D) Employee from 1961 to 1963
A) For five years B) For a decade C) Until the end of Soviet occupation D) Until Karmal's death
A) Yuri Andropov B) Leonid Brezhnev C) Alexei Kosygin D) Alexander Puzanov
A) 40 percent B) 80 percent C) 60 percent D) 20 percent
A) Khalq faction B) Islamic Unity Party C) Parchamites D) National Revolutionary Party
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) June 1981 B) January 1983 C) December 1982 D) March 1980
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
A) The August Revolution B) The March Revolution C) The October Revolution D) The April Revolution
A) Saleh Mohammad Zeary B) Khalq commanders loyal to Amin C) Parchamite leaders D) Amin's daughter along with her baby
A) Faiz Mohammad B) Niamatullah Pazhwak C) Abdul Qadir D) Hassan Sharq
A) Industrialization efforts B) Military expansion C) The literacy programme D) Land redistribution
A) $325 million US$ B) $22 percent of total expenditure C) $208 million US$ D) $6.4 million US$
A) Five B) Ten C) Seven D) Three
A) 100,000 troops before, 25,000 after B) 200,000 troops before, 50,000 after C) 50,000 troops before, 75,000 after D) 25,000 troops before, 100,000 after
A) Leading a successful coup against Karmal B) Implementing educational reforms C) Negotiating peace with opposition groups D) Committing the Kerala massacre
A) Escalating unrest in the country B) Stable political environment C) Widespread public support D) Successful economic reforms
A) The signing of a peace treaty B) A declaration of independence from the Soviet Union C) An economic reform announcement D) Two major uprisings on 3 Hoot (22 February)
A) Service sector B) Trade C) Industry D) Agriculture
A) 6 January B) The day after Karmal took power C) 22 April 1980 D) 1 January 1980
A) Agriculture B) Service sector C) Trade D) Industry
A) Leonid Brezhnev B) Alexei Kosygin C) Alexander Puzanov D) Yuri Andropov
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) Minister of Education B) General Secretary C) Deputy Prime Minister D) Second Secretary
A) Arabic and Persian B) English and German C) Spanish and Italian D) French and Russian
A) Hafizullah Amin B) Muhammad Daoud Khan C) Nur Muhammad Taraki D) Mohammed Najibullah
A) A simple majority B) A unanimous decision C) A three-fifths majority D) A two-thirds majority
A) 2.2% B) 22% C) 40% D) 8.3%
A) In Hairatan B) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital C) In Kabul during a battle D) In a plane crash along with Dostum
A) Moscow B) Tashkent C) Hairatan D) Kabul
A) Abdul Rashid Dostum B) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar C) Najibullah D) Babrak Karmal
A) Watanjar B) Taraki C) Karmal D) Amin
A) National Revolutionary Party B) Parchamite PDPA C) Islamic Unity Party D) Soviet Communist Party
A) 1 January 1980 B) 27 December 1979 C) 28 December 1979 D) 4 September 1979
A) Hassan Sharq B) Babrak Karmal C) Mohammad Taraki D) Niamatullah Pazhwak |