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Babrak Karmal
Contributed by: Vaughan
  • 1. When was Babrak Karmal born?
A) 1949
B) 1939
C) 1929
D) 1959
  • 2. Which country was Babrak Karmal the leader of?
A) Pakistan
B) Afghanistan
C) Iran
D) Iraq
  • 3. During Babrak Karmal's presidency, Afghanistan signed a friendship treaty with which country?
A) United Kingdom
B) United States
C) Soviet Union
D) China
  • 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) MI6
B) CIA
C) KHAD
D) MOSSAD
  • 6. In which city was Babrak Karmal born?
A) Herat
B) Kabul
C) Kandahar
D) Mazar-i-Sharif
  • 7. Who was the leader of Afghanistan just before Babrak Karmal came to power?
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan
B) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
C) Hafizullah Amin
D) Nur Muhammad Taraki
  • 8. Which neighboring country did Babrak Karmal's government accuse of supporting mujahideen in Afghanistan?
A) Iran
B) India
C) China
D) Pakistan
  • 9. What was Babrak Karmal's birth name?
A) Sultan Hussein
B) Hafizullah Amin
C) Mir Akbar Khyber
D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
  • 10. Who introduced Babrak Karmal to Marxism?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Nur Mohammad Taraki
C) Mir Akbar Khyber
D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
  • 11. What faction of the PDPA did Babrak Karmal lead?
A) Parcham faction
B) Democratic faction
C) Revolutionary faction
D) Khalq faction
  • 12. In which year was the PDPA split into factions?
A) 1973
B) 1978
C) 1967
D) 1986
  • 13. Which city did Babrak Karmal live in under protection after his exile?
A) Kabul
B) Prague
C) Czechoslovakia
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) Chairman of the Revolutionary Council
D) President of Afghanistan
  • 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) He became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum
B) Dostum exiled him from Afghanistan
C) They were political rivals
D) Kārmal served as Dostum's advisor
  • 17. What was the cause of Babrak Karmal's death in 1996?
A) Car accident
B) Assassination
C) Liver cancer
D) Heart attack
  • 18. In which village was Babrak Karmal born?
A) Kamari
B) Kabul
C) Herat
D) Paktia
  • 19. What rank did Babrak Karmal's father hold in the Royal Afghan Army?
A) Major general
B) Colonel
C) Lieutenant general (three-star rank)
D) Private
  • 20. Which provinces was Babrak Karmal's father a former governor of?
A) Kabul and Jalalabad
B) Kandahar and Kunduz
C) Nangarhar and Balkh
D) Paktia and Herat
  • 21. What was the ethnic background that some sources claimed Babrak Karmal belonged to?
A) Uzbek
B) Tajik
C) Hazara
D) Pashtun
  • 22. Which organization did Babrak Karmal become involved with during his university years?
A) Pashtun Freedom Fighters
B) Tajik Nationalist Party
C) Afghan Democratic Union
D) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement)
  • 23. Why was Babrak Karmal initially denied admission to Kabul University?
A) For lack of necessary qualifications
B) Because of poor academic performance
C) Due to his student political activism and openly leftist views
D) Due to a family dispute
  • 24. In what year was Babrak Karmal arrested because of his student union activities?
A) 1956
B) 1948
C) 1960
D) 1953
  • 25. By how much did the Gross National Product (GNP) per capita decrease from 1978 to 1981?
A) 300 Afghan afghanis
B) 700 Afghan afghanis
C) 600 Afghan afghanis
D) 518 Afghan afghanis
  • 26. What was Babrak Karmal's role in the Ministry of Planning?
A) Employee from 1961 to 1963
B) Consultant
C) Director
D) Advisor
  • 27. How long did Major Saddiq Alamyar remain in jail?
A) Until Karmal's death
B) Until the end of Soviet occupation
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) Alexander Puzanov
B) Yuri Andropov
C) Alexei Kosygin
D) Leonid Brezhnev
  • 29. What percentage of elected officials were non-PDPA members during the 1985–86 elections?
A) 20 percent
B) 80 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 40 percent
  • 30. Who took control over the ministries of finance, agriculture, communications, and border affairs?
A) Khalq faction
B) Parchamites
C) National Revolutionary Party
D) Islamic Unity Party
  • 31. Why did Karmal believe the country was not ready for a revolution?
A) Due to economic instability
B) Lack of military strength
C) Insufficient international support
D) Because people would not support armed actions without their backing
  • 32. Where was Babrak Karmal when his pre-recorded speech to the Afghan people was broadcast?
A) Kabul
B) Moscow
C) Tashkent
D) Bagram
  • 33. When was the NFF's founding congress held?
A) January 1983
B) March 1980
C) June 1981
D) December 1982
  • 34. What was one of the contradictions in the Fundamental Principles?
A) No mention of national security
B) Prohibition of all forms of property
C) The state could take families under its supervision
D) Complete freedom without any state intervention
  • 35. What was the Saur Revolution also known as?
A) The April Revolution
B) The March Revolution
C) The August Revolution
D) The October Revolution
  • 36. Who was imprisoned for twelve years during Karmal's rule?
A) Parchamite leaders
B) Saleh Mohammad Zeary
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) Niamatullah Pazhwak
B) Faiz Mohammad
C) Hassan Sharq
D) Abdul Qadir
  • 38. What was continued as part of the national policy of reconciliation?
A) Military expansion
B) Industrialization efforts
C) Land redistribution
D) The literacy programme
  • 39. To what amount did the defense budget increase by 1981 after the Soviet intervention?
A) $325 million US$
B) $208 million US$
C) $6.4 million US$
D) $22 percent of total expenditure
  • 40. How many military zones were established to better organize the Afghan military?
A) Seven
B) Five
C) Ten
D) Three
  • 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) Implementing educational reforms
B) Committing the Kerala massacre
C) Negotiating peace with opposition groups
D) Leading a successful coup against Karmal
  • 43. What was one of the domestic challenges faced by Babrak Karmal?
A) Escalating unrest in the country
B) Widespread public support
C) Successful economic reforms
D) Stable political environment
  • 44. What event marked an early sign of trouble during Karmal's leadership?
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)
  • 45. What was the primary economic activity in Afghanistan during Karmal's rule?
A) Industry
B) Service sector
C) Trade
D) Agriculture
  • 46. When did the general amnesty of prisoners occur under Karmal's government?
A) 6 January
B) 1 January 1980
C) The day after Karmal took power
D) 22 April 1980
  • 47. Which sector was the smallest in terms of GDP contribution in 1981?
A) Agriculture
B) Industry
C) Trade
D) Service sector
  • 48. Which Soviet official refused to help Babrak Karmal during his time in hiding and revealed his location?
A) Alexei Kosygin
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Alexander Puzanov
D) Yuri Andropov
  • 49. What role did students play during Karmal's leadership?
A) They participated in months-long protests
B) They supported Karmal's policies
C) They were neutral observers
D) They formed a new political party
  • 50. What position did Karmal hold in the reestablished PDPA?
A) Minister of Education
B) General Secretary
C) Second Secretary
D) Deputy Prime Minister
  • 51. What languages did Babrak Karmal work as a translator for?
A) Arabic and Persian
B) Spanish and Italian
C) English and German
D) French and Russian
  • 52. Who granted amnesty to Babrak Karmal in 1956?
A) Mohammed Najibullah
B) Nur Muhammad Taraki
C) Hafizullah Amin
D) Muhammad Daoud Khan
  • 53. What majority did the Parchamites hold during the party conference in March 1982?
A) A three-fifths majority
B) A two-thirds majority
C) A unanimous decision
D) A simple majority
  • 54. What percentage of government revenue was spent on defense by the Afghan government?
A) 40%
B) 2.2%
C) 22%
D) 8.3%
  • 55. Where did Babrak Karmal die?
A) In Kabul during a battle
B) In Hairatan
C) In a plane crash along with Dostum
D) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital
  • 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) Abdul Rashid Dostum
C) Babrak Karmal
D) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
  • 58. Who was appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council after the Saur Revolution?
A) Taraki
B) Watanjar
C) Amin
D) Karmal
  • 59. Which political party collaborated with Mohammed Daoud Khan in overthrowing the monarchy?
A) National Revolutionary Party
B) Soviet Communist Party
C) Islamic Unity Party
D) Parchamite PDPA
  • 60. What was the date of Babrak Karmal's pre-recorded speech broadcast via Radio Kabul?
A) 28 December 1979
B) 4 September 1979
C) 1 January 1980
D) 27 December 1979
  • 61. Who was given a leading position in the Soviet-style Central Committee established by Daoud's government?
A) Niamatullah Pazhwak
B) Mohammad Taraki
C) Hassan Sharq
D) Babrak Karmal
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