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